Monday, October 31, 2016

Extra

Close but no cigar!

1 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Was this Chatta also known as Mrs. Herbie Weber? If so, Chata, as sometimes spelled on the Beatty show, was an Escalante, for years in her youth on the Barnes show.

The chimps with Albert Fleet must have been the otherwise titled Clyde Beatty Hollywood Chimps, Minnie, and the notoriously dangerous Mickey. There is a newspaper photo of Beatty alongside the gurney carrying Fleet, after Mickey had badly mauled his hand.