Bibliograph

Me Cheeta, my life in Hollywood, [James Lever]

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Me Cheeta, my life in Hollywood, [James Lever]

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Me Cheeta

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

[James Lever]

Sub title

my life in Hollywood

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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