Sally Payne
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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.
Fotos
Películas (49)
Ain't It Aggravatin'
1954 · Frugal Man's Wife (uncredited)
Cash Stashers
1953 · The Wife (uncredited)
Bargain Madness
1951 · Sally (uncredited)
This Is the Life
1944 · Dolly (uncredited)
Inferior Decorator
1943 · Mrs. Kennedy
Mountain Rhythm
1943 · Fanniebelle Weaver
Cooks and Crooks
1942 · Sally Kennedy
Romance on the Range
1942 · Sally
Soaring Stars
1942 · Autograph Seeker
Man from Cheyenne
1942 · Sally Evans
A Quiet Fourth
1941 · Sally Kennedy
Red River Valley
1941 · Sally Whittaker
Tuxedo Junction
1941 · Pansy Weaver
Jesse James at Bay
1941 · Polly Morgan
I'll Fix It
1941 · Sally
Westward Ho-Hum
1941 · Sally
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941 · 'Princess' Sally Blackstone
Nevada City
1941 · Jo Morrison
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941 · Queenie Whittaker, aka Queenie LaTour
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941 · Chorus Girl
In Old Cheyenne
1941 · 'Squeak' Brown
Penny To the Rescue
1941 · Mrs. Smudge
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941 · Belle Starr
No, No, Nanette
1940 · Maid
One Night in the Tropics
1940 · Woman with Second Man Polled by Jim (uncredited)
Wedding Bills
1940 · Bride-to-be (uncredited)
Rodeo Dough
1940 · Sally
Young Bill Hickok
1940 · Miss 'Calamity' Jane Canary
City for Conquest
1940 · Singer (uncredited)
When the Daltons Rode
1940 · Annabella
Money and the Woman
1940 · Mrs. Jones (uncredited)
I Love You Again
1940 · Salesgirl (uncredited)
Bested by a Beard
1940 · Maisie
La Conga Nights
1940 · Lucy Endover
The Domineering Male
1940 · Gertrude 'Gertie' (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939 · Jean - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939 · Young Woman (uncredited)
Let's Talk Turkey
1939 · Abner's Wife
Set 'em Up
1939 · Girl Bowler
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1939 · Sally
When Tomorrow Comes
1939 · Waitress (uncredited)
Culinary Carving
1939 · Mrs. Formaldehyde
My Wife's Relatives
1939 · Lizzie
Hollywood Hobbies
1939 · Tourist
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939 · Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
Man from Music Mountain
1938 · Patsy
The Higgins Family
1938 · Lizzie
Exiled to Shanghai
1937 · Mabel
The Big Show
1936 · Toodles Brown
