Sally Payne
Known For
Acting
Born
1912-09-05 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Most Known For
MGM Parade
as Self
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Soaring Stars
as Autograph Seeker
Wedding Bills
as Bride-to-be (uncredited)
Westward Ho-Hum
as Sally
City for Conquest
as Singer (uncredited)
I Love You Again
as Salesgirl (uncredited)
When Tomorrow Comes
as Waitress (uncredited)
One Night in the Tropics
as Woman with Second Man Polled by Jim (uncredited)
When the Daltons Rode
as Annabella
Bad Man of Deadwood
as 'Princess' Sally Blackstone
Jesse James at Bay
as Polly Morgan
No, No, Nanette
as Maid
The Lady from Cheyenne
as Chorus Girl
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Jean - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Young Bill Hickok
as Miss 'Calamity' Jane Canary
Romance on the Range
as Sally
Sheriff of Tombstone
as Queenie Whittaker, aka Queenie LaTour
The Big Show
as Toodles Brown
Money and the Woman
as Mrs. Jones (uncredited)