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Christine McIntyre
16 April 1911
Christine McIntyre played in 6 movies in the Short, Comedy, Music genres.
Christine McIntyre got succeed with average imdb rating 7.4.
One of five children, Christine Cecilia McIntyre was born in Nogales, Arizona, on April 26, 1911, to John and Edna (nee Barnaby) McIntyre. In the early 1930s, Christine received a Bachelor of Music degree at Chicago Musical College, where she honed her operatic soprano voice (which can be heard in a handful of her movies); she also began her radio career in Chicago. By 1936, she was acting on the professional stage in L.A., starring in plays such as "The Bird of Paradise" with actors like 'Pierc... e Lyden' (qv). She broke into movies with a small role in _Swing Fever (1937)_ (qv), signing for feature films with RKO. This led to a series of B westerns with stars like 'Buck Jones' (qv), 'Johnny Mack Brown' (qv), and 'Ray Corrigan' (qv). Then, in 1944, with her hair newly dyed blonde, she was discovered by producer 'Hugh McCollum' (qv) at Columbia Pictures and signed a ten-year contract to do shorts for the studio. Over the next decade, she worked with comedians such as 'Andy Clyde' (qv), 'Hugh Herbert' (qv), and 'Shemp Howard' (qv) (solo), not to mention both 'Joe Besser' (qv) and 'Joe DeRita' (qv). However, she will forever be remembered for her prolific work with 'The Three Stooges' (qv). A favorite concert piece of hers, 'Johann Strau?' (qv)' "Voice of Spring," was the basis for the 1945 Stooges short _Micro-Phonies (1945)_ (qv), considered by many Stooge fans as the trio's finest effort and which also provides the best example of Christine's beautifully pure operatic soprano voice as she sings the above-mentioned aria (which 'Curly Howard' (qv), as "Senorita Cucaracha," hilariously lip-synchs to). Always focused, always a presence onscreen, Christine developed into a first-rate comedic actress--her timing was impeccable and she wasn't afraid to get "down and dirty" with slapstick experts such as the Stooges (she even beat up poor 'Shemp Howard' (qv) in the classic _Brideless Groom (1947)_ (qv), then knocked him through a door), and it was merely through unfortunate twists of fate that she never segued over into television at the same time that funnywomen 'Lucille Ball' (qv) and 'Imogene Coca' (qv) were making their small-screen marks. Though Christine's career at Columbia consisted mostly of comedy shorts, she did show up in occasional features, often westerns. In 1953, near the end of her Columbia contract, she married radio producer/writer/actor 'J. Donald Wilson' (qv) (not to be confused with 'Jack Benny' (qv)'s announcer 'Don Wilson (I)' (qv)), and soon after retired from show business. Christine and J. Donald spent the next 30 years developing joint careers in real estate. The former actress passed away in Van Nuys, California, on July 8, 1984, six months after her husband.Read more Less
