Mary Lee (October 24, 1924 – June 6, 1996) was a big band singer and B movie actress from the late 1930s into the 1940s, appearing mostly in Westerns.

At age six, Mary Lee began singing with her father and older sister, Vera, who were already performing country and popular songs over a low power radio station and at various events in the LaSalle County, Illinois, area.

[3] In mid-June 1938, Lee joined the Ted Weems Orchestra, traveling with the group four months a year, accompanied by either her mother or her older sister as companion and teacher.

[3] She recorded five sides with the Weems band including "Back to Smokey Mountain", a duet with Elmo Tanner from an October 5, 1939 session, issued as Decca 2829-B.

In the fall of 1939, Mary Lee accepted a job at Republic Pictures where she starred alongside Gene Autry and June Storey in South of the Border (15 December 1939).

She starred in a total of nine Autry films, the first five of those with June Storey, always playing the leading lady's younger sister "Patsy"[3] except in Melody Ranch (15 November 1940) where her character's name was "Penny".

The film was released on August 27, 1943, by Republic Pictures Gene Autry enlisted in July 1942 in the U.S. Army Air Corps, where he would serve for the duration of the war plus six months.

[7] In the finale, Dale Evans, Mary Lee, and Roy Rogers sing "Enchilada Man" and "Cowboy and the Senorita"[8] with the Sons of the Pioneers.