Person Details

Birthday: 1912-09-05 23:05:21

Death: 1999-05-08 23:05:21

Aliases: Sally Payne Kelly

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Movie Involvements: 16

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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 Famous Work

City for Conquest
Average
7

City for Conquest

(1940) Singer (uncredited)
When the Daltons Rode
Average
6

When the Daltons Rode

(1940) Annabella
Red River Valley
Average
8

Red River Valley

(1941) Sally Whittaker
Exiled to Shanghai
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5

Exiled to Shanghai

(1937) Mabel
Sheriff of Tombstone
Average
7

Sheriff of Tombstone

(1941) Queenie Whittaker, aka Queenie LaTour
Bad Man of Deadwood
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4

Bad Man of Deadwood

(1941) 'Princess' Sally Blackstone
In Old Cheyenne
Average
4

In Old Cheyenne

(1941) 'Squeak' Brown
The Big Show
Average
4

The Big Show

(1936) Toodles Brown

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1954 Frugal Man's Wife (uncredited)
1953 The Wife (uncredited)
1951 N/A
Sally (uncredited)
1943 Fanniebelle Weaver
1942 Sally Kennedy
Sally
Autograph Seeker
Sally Evans
1941 Sally Kennedy
Sally Whittaker
Pansy Weaver
Polly Morgan
Sally
Sally
'Princess' Sally Blackstone
Jo Morrison
Queenie Whittaker, aka Queenie LaTour
Chorus Girl
'Squeak' Brown
Belle Starr
1940 Maid
Woman with Second Man Polled by Jim (uncredited)
Bride-to-be (uncredited)
Sally
Miss 'Calamity' Jane Canary
Singer (uncredited)
Annabella
Mrs. Jones (uncredited)
Salesgirl (uncredited)
Maisie
Lucy Endover
Gertrude 'Gertie' (uncredited)
1939 Jean - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Young Woman (uncredited)
Abner's Wife
Girl Bowler
Sally
Lizzie
Tourist
Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
1938 Patsy
Lizzie
1937 Mabel
1936 Toodles Brown
Year Character Movie/Tv

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