Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Jungleland #5


Scan12327, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

"DONALD O'CONNOR and "BONZO" rehearse their next scene in "FRANCIS JOINS THE WACS" at Universal Studio."

Posted by Buckles at 10/27/2009 06:01:00 AM

1 comments:

Roger Smith said...

This is Peggy with Donald. In spite of all the endless claims of other chimp owners, Peggy portrayed Cheetah in all the Weissmuller and Lex Barker TARZAN films, and became Tamba when Weissmuller gained weight and wore safari clothes as Jungle Jim. She was also Kimmbo for Johnny Sheffield's BOMBA films. It was on to the BONZO series and awards she earned with her trainer, Henry Tyndall. Her back-up chimps were Neil and Emil.

In the last few years out here, a guy who is Tony Gentry's nephew, has a chimp he says is 75, and is the original Cheetah. Tony even tried to get a star on Hollywood Blvd. for this latter-day animal. It was not to be--the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce did their homework and knew better. The truth is, when Margaret Gentry passed, Tony sat out in Newbury Park all alone. Wally Ross found this aged bargain-basement chimp and gave him to Tony so Tony would have something to do. Upon Tony's death, efforts were continued to gain notice that this was the famed companion of Weissmuller and Barker. An article appeared in an LA TIMES Sunday magazine so claiming, but the truth is, Peggy had died long since, and so had Henry Tyndall, leaving scant few of us to set the record straight.

28 October, 2009 01:45

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