Author James Lever talks about the chimp, the myth and the legend behind his fictionalized memoir Me, Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood. Tarzan's Sidekick Reveals All In 'Me Cheeta' The fictionalized ...

Experts call it "improbable" that a chimpanzee live to 80, making this the second Tarzan primate suspected of being a fake. By Mikey O'Connell Cheeta Tarzan the Ape Man 1933- H 2011 Like Rin Tin Tin, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It’s a story whose plot resembles a 1930s screwball comedy, but author R ...

When I read a few years back that a movie chimpanzee — Cheeta, who had been Tarzan's sidekick in the 1930s and '40s Johnny Weissmuller movies — was still alive at 72 years old, my first thought was ...

A living Hollywood legend is poised to make a comeback, but he's not your typical star, he's 76-years-old, lives on bananas and is furry all over. Tarzan's tree-swinging sidekick Cheeta still ...

He was the hardest working chimp in showbiz and, like any true Hollywood legend, Cheeta, Johnny Weissmuller‘s costar in the Tarzan movies, has completed his autobiography, “Me Cheeta.” At 76, Cheeta, ...

From Lassie and Trigger to Gentle Ben and Babe The Talking Pig, the true-life stories of cinema’s animal stars are seldom told. Fewer still get to tell the tale themselves. So a frisson of ...

As movie stars go, Tarzan and his blood-curdling yell bit the dust a looong while back. His chimp, though, is still in the business, hanging in Palm Springs, Calif., scratching for the next script, ...

The story does not begin in Hollywood, where it’s possible, though by no means certain, that Cheeta became famous. It does not begin in Palm Springs, where Cheeta lives like so many other retirees, ...

Cheeta, chimpanzee and Tarzan movie star, dies at 'roughly 80' Cheeta the chimpanzee, who starred in Tarzan movies alongside Olympic swimmer-turned-actor Johnny Weissmuller in the 1930s and ranked #1 ...

Cheeta the chimp monkeys around with Johnny Weissmuller on the set of a Tarzan film in 1945. The fictionalized memoir Me, Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood tells the story of filmdom's golden age from the ...