Mystery surrounds Cheeta, purportedly the world's oldest chimpanzee

latimesblogs ^ | February 14, 2009

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Top photo: A chimp as Cheeta, Johnny Sheffield as Boy, Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan, Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane in 1939's "Tarzan Finds a Son."

Bottom photo: "Cheeta" with actor Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan, and his mother. Credit: Collection of Dan Westfall.

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Someone was selling Cheeta autographs in the 1990s.

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I’d sure like to monkey around with Maureen O’Sullivan.

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* kaff *

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"Someone was selling Cheeta autographs in the 1990s."



Cheeta (Jiggs) (1932- ) Movie chimpanzee. Cheeta’s Hollywood career began in 1933 after he was taken away from his mother in the jungle when he was only a few months old. He starred in numerous movies and television shows, most famously many Tarzan films of the 1930s and 1940s, in which he portrayed a fictional chimp of the same name. 8” x 10” black and white movie still from a Tarzan film signed. There is a 6” x 4” color photograph of Cheeta signing the picture.

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aw po0p.

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