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.

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Ain't It Aggravatin'

1954

as Frugal Man's Wife (uncredited)

Cash Stashers

1953

as The Wife (uncredited)

1941

as Sally Kennedy

Red River Valley

1941

as Sally Whittaker

Tuxedo Junction

1941

as Pansy Weaver

Jesse James at Bay

as Maisie

La Conga Nights

1940

as Lucy Endover

The Domineering Male

1940

as Gertrude 'Gertie' (uncredited)

The Amazing Mr. Williams

1939

as Jean - Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Blondie Brings Up Baby

1939

as Young Woman (uncredited)

Let's Talk Turkey

1939

as Abner's Wife

Set 'em Up

1939

as Girl Bowler

Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga

as Lizzie

Exiled to Shanghai

1937

as Mabel

The Big Show

1936

as Toodles Brown

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Sally Payne

Acted in

Ain't It Aggravatin'

Cash Stashers

The Adventures of Kit Carson

Bargain Madness

Inferior Decorator

Mountain Rhythm

Cooks and Crooks

Romance on the Range

Soaring Stars

Man from Cheyenne

A Quiet Fourth

Red River Valley

Tuxedo Junction

Jesse James at Bay

I'll Fix It

Westward Ho-Hum

Bad Man of Deadwood

Nevada City

Sheriff of Tombstone

The Lady from Cheyenne

In Old Cheyenne

Robin Hood of the Pecos

No, No, Nanette

One Night in the Tropics

Wedding Bills

Rodeo Dough

Young Bill Hickok

City for Conquest

When the Daltons Rode

Money and the Woman

I Love You Again

Bested by a Beard

La Conga Nights

The Domineering Male

The Amazing Mr. Williams

Blondie Brings Up Baby

Let's Talk Turkey

Set 'em Up

Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga

Culinary Carving

My Wife's Relatives

Hollywood Hobbies

Blondie Meets the Boss

Man from Music Mountain

The Higgins Family

Exiled to Shanghai

The Big Show