Christine Cecilia McIntyre (April 16, 1911 – July 8, 1984) was an American actress and singer who appeared in various films from 1937 to 1954. She is mainly remembered as the beautiful blonde in many of The Three Stooges shorts produced by Columbia Pictures.

A native of Nogales, Arizona, McIntyre was one of five children. A classically trained singer, McIntyre received a Bachelor of Music degree at Chicago Musical College in 1933. It was here that she developed her operatic soprano voice, which would be put to good use in several Three Stooges films in the 1940s.

McIntyre began singing in feature films at RKO Radio Pictures, and made her film debut in the 1937 short subject Swing Fever. She then appeared in a series of low-budget westerns, often starring Buck Jones. She appeared with dark hair in these early roles, and also appeared occasionally in "mainstream" feature films (like 1939's Blondie Takes a Vacation). She sang "The Blue Danube" and "Voices of Spring" in a Vienna-themed musical short filmed for the Soundies film jukeboxes, and her performance was singled out as the best of the inaugural series.

In 1944, Columbia Pictures producer Hugh McCollum signed McIntyre to a decade-long contract. At Columbia, she appeared in scores of short subjects with almost all of the Columbia short-subject comedy stars: The Three Stooges, Shemp Howard, Harry Langdon, Andy Clyde, Hugh Herbert, Vera Vague, Billy Gilbert, Harry Von Zell, Joe Besser, Joe DeRita, Bert Wheeler, Slim Summerville, Sterling Holloway, Gus Schilling & Richard Lane, Wally Vernon & Eddie Quillan, Wally Brown & Tim Ryan, and Max Baer & Maxie Rosenbloom. The Hugh Herbert comedy Wife Decoy is actually a showcase for Christine McIntyre, who is the principal character. In this film, she appears as a brunette who dyes her hair blonde. From then on in her screen appearances, she remained a blonde. In her Columbia comedies she played charming heroines, scheming villains, and flighty socialites.

Her debut appearance with the Three Stooges was in Idle Roomers, followed by a solo Shemp Howard short, Open Season for Saps. She auditioned her singing voice for Hugh McCollum's director Edward Bernds, offering "Voices of Spring". Bernds cast her in Micro-Phonies, where she reprised the song. Bernds had her sing "The Last Rose of Summer" in 1947’s Out West and a pastiche of the "Lucia Sextet" in 1948’s Squareheads of the Round Table.

McCollum and Bernds recognized McIntyre's abilities and often tailored material especially for her, allowing her to improvise as she saw fit. Her performance as Miss Hopkins in Brideless Groom (1947) featured a memorable knockabout scene in which she repels suitor Shemp Howard—right through a door. Director Bernds remembered:

In the story, Shemp had a few hours in which to get married if he wanted to inherit his uncle's fortune. He called on Christine McIntyre, who mistook him for her cousin (Basil) and greeted him with hugs and kisses. Then the real cousin phoned and she accused Shemp of kissing her, as it were, under false pretenses. At this point, she was supposed to slap Shemp around. Lady that she was, Chris couldn't do it right; she dabbed at him daintily, afraid of hurting him. After a couple of bad takes, Shemp pleaded with her. 'Honey,' he said, 'if you want to do me a favor, cut loose and do it right. A lot of half-hearted slaps hurts more than one good one. Give it to me, Chris, and let's get it over with.' Chris got up her courage and on the next take, let Shemp have it. 'It' wound up as a whole series of slaps—the timing was beautiful; they rang out like pistol shots. Shemp was knocked into a chair, bounced up, met another ringing slap, fell down again, scrambled up, trying to explain, only to get another stinging slap. Then Chris delivered a haymaker—a right that knocked Shemp through the door. When the take was over, Shemp was groggy, really groggy. Chris put her arms around him and apologized tearfully. 'It's all right, honey,' Shemp said painfully. 'I said you should cut loose and you did. You sure as hell did!'

McIntyre also won a feature-film contract with Monogram Pictures. After playing a newspaper publisher in News Hounds, a comedy with The Bowery Boys, she usually played opposite Monogram's cowboy stars in low-budget Westerns.