Louise Currie and Christine McIntyre

Louise Currie

1921 -

Louise Currie's Hollywood career spanned the decade of the 1940s, initially doing bit parts and supporting roles at RKO (she can be seen briefly in Orson Welles' CITIZEN KANE).

She did about a half dozen westerns, including WILD WEST (PRC, 1946), which starred Eddie Dean and Lash LaRue, arguably the best oater churned out by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). She did a few low budget horror flicks starring Bela Lugosi as well as working in several of the Columbia Pictures shorts. However, Currie is best remembered as the heroine in two classic cliffhangers, THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL (Republic, 1941) and THE MASKED MARVEL (Republic, 1943). Retiring from the screen around 1950, Currie became a successful fashion designer.

Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Louise Currie. Click HERE.

There's more about Louise at Daniel Neyer's "The Files of Jerry Blake" serial website : http://filesofjerryblake.netfirms.com/Heroines/Louise_Currie/louise_currie.html

A brief profile on Currie is at Todd Gault's Serial Experience website: http://www.serialexperience.com/showarticle.php?fldRecNum=35

Classic Images has an interview with Louise Currie at: http://www.classicimages.com/1999/june99/currie.html

(Courtesy of Les Adams)

(Courtesy of Les Adams)

Christine McIntyre

1911 - 1984

Christine McIntyre's Hollywood career began in the late 1930s. By the 1940s, she was entrenched as the resident leading lady in the Columbia Pictures short subjects unit, and today, is best remembered for her work in about three dozen two-reelers starring the Three Stooges. McIntyre appeared in over a hundred Columbia shorts, including those of Andy Clyde, El Brendel and Hugh Herbert. Her first appearance with the Stooges was in IDLE ROOMERS (Columbia, 1944).

Christine did appear in some features, including seventeen B westerns. And fifteen of these were for Monogram Pictures during a period from 1941-1951. Of the Monogram oaters, four were with Buck Jones (Rough Riders' THE GUNMAN FROM BODIE, RIDERS OF THE WEST, FORBIDDEN TRAILS and Jones' DAWN ON THE GREAT DIVIDE). She also did nine with Johnny Mack Brown, and one with Whip Wilson. Her two non-Monogram westerns were with Fred Scott in RANGER'S ROUNDUP (Spectrum, 1937) and BORDER BUCKAROO (PRC, 1943), which featured Dave O'Brien and Jim Newill as the Texas Rangers.

In the early western film appearances, McIntyre was a brunette, as shown by the lobby card above and photos above and below. By the mid 1940s, she was a blonde, and that's the hair color that most people recall. She also had a good singing voice, and would exercise that voice on infrequent occasions.

My understanding is that her last Columbia short was made around 1954(?). Her final western films were COLORADO AMBUSH (Monogram, 1951), with Johnny Mack Brown, and WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE (Monogram, 1951), which starred Whip Wilson. By the mid 1950s, she retired from the screen.

Christine McIntyre was a solid actress who did some nice work in sagebrush adventures. But she will forever be remembered for her skill, grace and comedic talent with the Stooges. And because of the never-ending popularity of that zany trio, new generations of fans will be introduced to this fine actress.

Above, a scene from the Rough Riders' RIDERS OF THE WEST (Monogram, 1942). From L-to-R are: Christine, Sarah Padden, Raymond Hatton (white coat), Harry Woods, Walter McGrail, Buck Jones (sitting on desk), Bud Osborne. Dennis Moore is kneeling over Robert Frazer.

(Courtesy of Pat LaRosa)

Above, the dark-haired Christine McIntyre is in real trouble in this Range Busters' adventure. Prolific heavy Frank Ellis is behind the mask.

(Courtesy of Les Adams)

Above from L-to-R are Sarah Padden, Bud Osborne, Buck Jones and Christine McIntyre in another scene from the Rough Riders' RIDERS OF THE WEST (Monogram, 1942).

(Courtesy of Bill Telfer)

Above from L-to-R are Dennis Moore, Christine, Raymond Hatton and Johnny Mack Brown in WEST OF THE RIO GRANDE (Monogram, 1944). In the background are Hal Price (purple shirt), and Steve Clark is standing behind Johnny Mack's hat.

Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Christine McIntyre. Click HERE.

Bill Telfer's Tribute to Christine McIntyre website has lots of images, a nice biography, more: http://members.tripod.com/taillefer/ChristineMcIntyre/

Jim Tipton's Find A Grave website has a photo of the marker for Christine McIntyre (and her husband, radio and TV scriptwriter and producer J. Donald Wilson) at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11273&pt=Christine%20McIntyre

You can do a search of Mitch Shapiro's 3 Stooges Filmography for Christine McIntyre's appearances (be careful on your search expression as Shapiro has Christine spelled Christyne with a Y): http://www.3-stooges.com/text/shorts1.html

The Three Stooges archive is at: http://three-stooges.net/

The ThreeStooges.net website is at: http://www.threestooges.net/