Name
Sally Payne
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1912-09-05
Deathday
1999-05-08 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
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Sally Payne (September 5, 1912 – May 8, 1999) was an American actress. She featured in several B-Westerns in the 1940s.
Payne made her first film in 1935, appearing in a bit part. She became a leading actress in B films, usually westerns. She also played in comedy shorts for RKO Radio Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She is most remembered for her performance as Calamity Jane in the Roy Rogers western Young Bill Hickok (1940), as well as acting the role of Belle Starr in Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941), where her performing style echoed that of a contemporary, Una Merkel. Just before her association with Rogers ended, her status had enlarged from a supporting-role character to that of first-billed actress.
Payne's characters were usually the tomboy type, often helping men rather than being dependent on them. She frequently wore men's clothing, carried a weapon, drove stagecoaches and rode horses. Her male associates identified strongly with her ability to survive a rough environment like the Old West frontier, but she was never the object of male fantasies. Rarely did Payne's characters become physically intimate with her masculine counterparts; thus if she were called on to display affection of any sort, the relationships never went beyond the strictly platonic. Thus, her persona was that of a female sidekick, but never a lover.
After Payne left acting, she ran her own book store and worked as an artist, creating oil paintings for her family and her friends and illustrating a series of children's books.
Payne retired from films in 1942 after her marriage to Arthur F. Kelly, an executive for Western Airlines.
On May 8, 1999, she died in Los Angeles of a stroke at the age of 86.
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- 1943 Mountain Rhythm as Fanniebelle Weaver
- 1941 Tuxedo Junction as Pansy Weaver
- 1938 The Higgins Family as Lizzie
- 1939 My Wife's Relatives as Lizzie
- 1941 Bad Man of Deadwood as 'Princess' Sally Blackstone
- 1941 Sheriff of Tombstone as Queenie Whittaker, aka Queenie LaTour
- 1940 Young Bill Hickok as Miss 'Calamity' Jane Canary
- 1936 The Big Show as Toodles Brown
- 1941 In Old Cheyenne as 'Squeak' Brown
- 1941 Red River Valley as Sally Whittaker
- 1940 When the Daltons Rode as Annabella
- 1942 Man from Cheyenne as Sally Evans
- 1938 Man from Music Mountain as Patsy
- 1941 Jesse James at Bay as Polly Morgan
- 1942 Romance on the Range as Sally
- 1941 Nevada City as Jo Morrison
- 1937 Exiled to Shanghai as Mabel
- 1939 Hollywood Hobbies as Tourist
- 1940 Wedding Bills as Bride-to-be (uncredited)
- 1939 Let's Talk Turkey as Abner's Wife
- 1939 Set 'em Up as Girl Bowler
- 1939 The Amazing Mr. Williams as Jean - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- 1942 Soaring Stars as Autograph Seeker
- 1939 Blondie Meets the Boss as Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
- 1939 Blondie Brings Up Baby as Young Woman (uncredited)
- 1940 Rodeo Dough as Sally
- 1954 Ain't It Aggravatin' as Frugal Man's Wife (uncredited)
- 1941 The Lady from Cheyenne as Chorus Girl
- 1940 City for Conquest as Singer (uncredited)
- 1940 One Night in the Tropics as Woman with Second Man Polled by Jim (uncredited)
- 1940 I Love You Again as Salesgirl (uncredited)
- 1940 No, No, Nanette as Maid
- 1939 Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga as Sally
- 1940 La Conga Nights as Lucy Endover
- 1941 Robin Hood of the Pecos as Belle Starr
- 1941 Westward Ho-Hum as Sally
- 1941 I'll Fix It as Sally
- 1953 Cash Stashers as The Wife (uncredited)
- 1941 A Quiet Fourth as Sally Kennedy
- 1940 Bested by a Beard as Maisie
- 1942 Cooks and Crooks as Sally Kennedy
- 1951 Bargain Madness as Sally (uncredited)
- 1940 The Domineering Male as Gertrude 'Gertie' (uncredited)
- 1940 Money and the Woman as Mrs. Jones (uncredited)
- 1939 Culinary Carving as Mrs. Formaldehyde
- 1943 Inferior Decorator as Mrs. Kennedy
- 1941 Penny To the Rescue as Mrs. Smudge
- 1939 When Tomorrow Comes as Waitress (uncredited)
- 1944 This Is the Life as Dolly (uncredited)
- 1951 The Adventures of Kit Carson ( 4 episodes )
- 1955 MGM Parade ( 1 episode ) as Self
