Sally Payne

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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.

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1955
MGM Parade
TV show Self
1954
Ain't It Aggravatin'
Movie Frugal Man's Wife (uncredited)
1953
Cash Stashers
Movie The Wife (uncredited)
1951
The Adventures of Kit Carson
TV show
1951
Bargain Madness
Movie Sally (uncredited)
1944
This Is the Life
Movie Dolly (uncredited)
1943
Inferior Decorator
Movie Mrs. Kennedy
1943
Mountain Rhythm
Movie Fanniebelle Weaver
1942
Cooks and Crooks
Movie Sally Kennedy
1942
Romance on the Range
Movie Sally
1942
Soaring Stars
Movie Autograph Seeker
1942
Man from Cheyenne
Movie Sally Evans
1941
A Quiet Fourth
Movie Sally Kennedy
1941
Red River Valley
Movie Sally Whittaker
1941
Tuxedo Junction
Movie Pansy Weaver
1941
Jesse James at Bay
Movie Polly Morgan

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1941
I'll Fix It
Movie Sally
1941
Westward Ho-Hum
Movie Sally
1941
Bad Man of Deadwood
Movie 'Princess' Sally Blackstone
1941
Nevada City
Movie Jo Morrison
1941
Sheriff of Tombstone
Movie Queenie Whittaker, aka Queenie LaTour
1941
The Lady from Cheyenne
Movie Chorus Girl
1941
In Old Cheyenne
Movie 'Squeak' Brown
1941
Penny To the Rescue
Movie Mrs. Smudge
1941
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Movie Belle Starr
1940
No, No, Nanette
Movie Maid
1940
One Night in the Tropics
Movie Woman with Second Man Polled by Jim (uncredited)
1940
Wedding Bills
Movie Bride-to-be (uncredited)
1940
Rodeo Dough
Movie Sally
1940
Young Bill Hickok
Movie Miss 'Calamity' Jane Canary
1940
City for Conquest
Movie Singer (uncredited)
1940
When the Daltons Rode
Movie Annabella
1940
Money and the Woman
Movie Mrs. Jones (uncredited)
1940
I Love You Again
Movie Salesgirl (uncredited)
1940
Bested by a Beard
Movie Maisie
1940
La Conga Nights
Movie Lucy Endover
1940
The Domineering Male
Movie Gertrude 'Gertie' (uncredited)
1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie Jean - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1939
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Movie Young Woman (uncredited)
1939
Let's Talk Turkey
Movie Abner's Wife