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Christine McIntyre was, of course, the charming blonde actress who was a capable foil for the Three Stooges in their slapstick comedies, often singing opera or operetta numbers in her beautiful soprano voice. It is well-established that she had classical training, and that she did her own singing in the films, but my cursory searches can find no instances of commercial audio recordings. She was under contract to Columbia for ten years (and six years at RKO before that), so you might think it would have been easier for her to take a stab at a recording career with Columbia than, say, just any opera wanna-be who walked in off the street, but I'm not sure how to search in that vein. I'd love to find some 78's of her singing... straight (non-comedy) opera would be fine, my thinking is that recordings of the comedic performances would be too much to hope for. Has anyone heard of anything in this regard?

DAHR doesn't show any, or, at least, none turn up in a name search for Christine McIntyre, and just "McIntyre" doesn't turn up any likely candidates.

Bob E. wrote: Tue Apr 22, 2025 5:29 pm Christine McIntyre was, of course, the charming blonde actress who was a capable foil for the Three Stooges in their slapstick comedies, often singing opera or operetta numbers in her beautiful soprano voice.

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I thought that was Curly!