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Me Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9780061647802
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Mar 9 2010
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Cheeta the Chimp was just a baby in 1932 when he was snatched from the jungle of Liberia by the great animal importer Henry Trefflich. That same year, Cheeta appeared in Tarzan the Ape Man, and in 1934 in Tarzan and His Mate, in which he famously stole clothes from a naked Maureen O'Sullivan, who was dripping wet from an underwater swimming scene with Johnny Weissmuller. Other Tarzan films followed, and later roles with Bela Lugosi in the 1950s. Cheeta finally retired from the big screen after the 1967 film Doctor Dolittle with Rex Harrison, whose finger he accidentally bit backstage while being offered a placatory banana. Cheeta now lives in Palm Springs, where, at age seventy-seven, he is by far the oldest living chimpanzee ever recorded.
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