Sally Payne
Acting • Born 1912-09-05 – Died 1999-05-08
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
50 credits
Mountain Rhythm
Movie • 1943
Fanniebelle Weaver
Tuxedo Junction
Movie • 1941
Pansy Weaver
The Higgins Family
Movie • 1938
Lizzie
My Wife's Relatives
Movie • 1939
Lizzie
Bad Man of Deadwood
Movie • 1941
'Princess' Sally Blackstone
Sheriff of Tombstone
Movie • 1941
Queenie Whittaker, aka Queenie LaTour
Young Bill Hickok
Movie • 1940
Miss 'Calamity' Jane Canary
The Big Show
Movie • 1936
Toodles Brown
In Old Cheyenne
Movie • 1941
'Squeak' Brown
Red River Valley
Movie • 1941
Sally Whittaker
When the Daltons Rode
Movie • 1940
Annabella
Man from Cheyenne
Movie • 1942
Sally Evans
Man from Music Mountain
Movie • 1938
Patsy
Jesse James at Bay
Movie • 1941
Polly Morgan
Romance on the Range
Movie • 1942
Sally
Nevada City
Movie • 1941
Jo Morrison
Exiled to Shanghai
Movie • 1937
Mabel
Hollywood Hobbies
Movie • 1939
Tourist
Wedding Bills
Movie • 1940
Bride-to-be (uncredited)
Let's Talk Turkey
Movie • 1939
Abner's Wife
Set 'em Up
Movie • 1939
Girl Bowler
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie • 1939
Jean - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Soaring Stars
Movie • 1942
Autograph Seeker
Blondie Meets the Boss
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Movie • 1939
Young Woman (uncredited)
Rodeo Dough
Movie • 1940
Sally
Ain't It Aggravatin'
Movie • 1954
Frugal Man's Wife (uncredited)
The Lady from Cheyenne
Movie • 1941
Chorus Girl
City for Conquest
Movie • 1940
Singer (uncredited)
One Night in the Tropics
Movie • 1940
Woman with Second Man Polled by Jim (uncredited)
I Love You Again
Movie • 1940
Salesgirl (uncredited)
No, No, Nanette
Movie • 1940
Maid
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
Movie • 1939
Sally
La Conga Nights
Movie • 1940
Lucy Endover
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Movie • 1941
Belle Starr
Westward Ho-Hum
Movie • 1941
Sally
I'll Fix It
Movie • 1941
Sally
Cash Stashers
Movie • 1953
The Wife (uncredited)
A Quiet Fourth
Movie • 1941
Sally Kennedy
Bested by a Beard
Movie • 1940
Maisie
Cooks and Crooks
Movie • 1942
Sally Kennedy
Bargain Madness
Movie • 1951
Sally (uncredited)
The Domineering Male
Movie • 1940
Gertrude 'Gertie' (uncredited)
Money and the Woman
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Jones (uncredited)
Culinary Carving
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Formaldehyde
Inferior Decorator
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Kennedy
Penny To the Rescue
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Smudge
When Tomorrow Comes
Movie • 1939
Waitress (uncredited)
The Adventures of Kit Carson
TV • 1951
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
Self