How tall was Christine?
The best approximation I’ve been able to arrive at is about 5’2″ or 5’3″. But this is a tricky question to answer (until some official record emerges), mostly due to inaccuracies in the reporting of the heights of some of her costars whose lives were more documented than hers. There is a popular belief that the main Stooge actors, (Howard, Fine, and Curly Howard) were all about 5’4″ (Shemp appears to have been a little taller). Even accounting for high heels and upswept hairdos, Christine always seems slightly taller than this trio. But a couple reliable sources claim the Stooges were really more like 5’1″, and if you compare them onscreen to some of their male costars this is not unbelievable (actually, I’ve come to believe it quite a lot). Why would any actor (or his representative) lie about his height? Probably good old vanity. Furthermore, mainstay Bowery Boy Leo Gorcey also seems to have had the same screen height as H., F., & H. when compared to Christine, and I have seen Leo’s
