Sally Payne
Acting
Born 1912-09-05
Died 1999-05-08
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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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Filmography
Acting
50 credits
MGM Parade
I Love You Again
City for Conquest
Wedding Bills
One Night in the Tropics
When Tomorrow Comes
Soaring Stars
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Red River Valley
The Lady from Cheyenne
Man from Cheyenne
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
When the Daltons Rode
Jesse James at Bay
No, No, Nanette
Hollywood Hobbies
This Is the Life
La Conga Nights
Mountain Rhythm
Bad Man of Deadwood
Young Bill Hickok
Romance on the Range
Blondie Meets the Boss
My Wife's Relatives
Money and the Woman
The Higgins Family
Rodeo Dough
Nevada City
In Old Cheyenne
Ain't It Aggravatin'
I'll Fix It
Exiled to Shanghai
The Big Show
Westward Ho-Hum
Tuxedo Junction
Culinary Carving
The Domineering Male
Sheriff of Tombstone
Bargain Madness
Bested by a Beard
Man from Music Mountain
Cash Stashers
Let's Talk Turkey
Cooks and Crooks
Set 'em Up
A Quiet Fourth
Penny To the Rescue
Inferior Decorator
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