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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 5, 1912
Died
May 8, 1999
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Sally Payne Kelly
Sally Payne
0.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
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6.0
Frugal Man's Wife (uncredited)
Ain't It Aggravatin'
1954
6.0
The Wife (uncredited)
Cash Stashers
1953
5.3
The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951
7.0
Sally (uncredited)
Bargain Madness
1951
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0.0
Mrs. Kennedy
Inferior Decorator
1943
0.0
Fanniebelle Weaver
Mountain Rhythm
1943
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0.0
Sally Kennedy
Cooks and Crooks
1942
5.7
Sally
Romance on the Range
1942
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0.0
Autograph Seeker
Soaring Stars
1942
7.5
Sally Evans
Man from Cheyenne
1942
Credits
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Ain't It Aggravatin'
as Frugal Man's Wife (uncredited)
1954
6.0
Cash Stashers
as The Wife (uncredited)
1953
6.0
The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951
5.3
Bargain Madness
as Sally (uncredited)
1951
7.0
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Inferior Decorator
as Mrs. Kennedy
1943
0.0
Mountain Rhythm
as Fanniebelle Weaver
1943
0.0
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Cooks and Crooks
as Sally Kennedy
1942
0.0
Romance on the Range
as Sally
1942
5.7
🎬
Soaring Stars
as Autograph Seeker
1942
0.0
Man from Cheyenne
as Sally Evans
1942
7.5
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A Quiet Fourth
as Sally Kennedy
1941
0.0
Red River Valley
as Sally Whittaker
1941
7.7
Tuxedo Junction
as Pansy Weaver
1941
0.0
Jesse James at Bay
as Polly Morgan
1941
4.2
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I'll Fix It
as Sally
1941
0.0
Westward Ho-Hum
as Sally
1941
0.0
Bad Man of Deadwood
as 'Princess' Sally Blackstone
1941
4.4
Nevada City
as Jo Morrison
1941
5.0
Sheriff of Tombstone
as Queenie Whittaker, aka Queenie LaTour
1941
6.8
The Lady from Cheyenne
as Chorus Girl
1941
4.6
In Old Cheyenne
as 'Squeak' Brown
1941
4.1
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Penny To the Rescue
as Mrs. Smudge
1941
0.0
Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Belle Starr
1941
5.0
No, No, Nanette
as Maid
1940
6.0
One Night in the Tropics
as Woman with Second Man Polled by Jim (uncredited)
1940
5.6
Wedding Bills
as Bride-to-be (uncredited)
1940
8.0
Rodeo Dough
as Sally
1940
5.3
Young Bill Hickok
as Miss 'Calamity' Jane Canary
1940
4.5
City for Conquest
as Singer (uncredited)
1940
6.8
When the Daltons Rode
as Annabella
1940
6.0
Money and the Woman
as Mrs. Jones (uncredited)
1940
3.5
I Love You Again
as Salesgirl (uncredited)
1940
7.2
Bested by a Beard
as Maisie
1940
0.0
La Conga Nights
as Lucy Endover
1940
7.5
The Domineering Male
as Gertrude 'Gertie' (uncredited)
1940
6.0
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Jean - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1939
5.8
Blondie Brings Up Baby
as Young Woman (uncredited)
1939
6.5
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Let's Talk Turkey
as Abner's Wife
1939
5.0
🎬
Set 'em Up
as Girl Bowler
1939
0.0
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
as Sally
1939
3.5
When Tomorrow Comes
as Waitress (uncredited)
1939
5.1
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Culinary Carving
as Mrs. Formaldehyde
1939
0.0
My Wife's Relatives
as Lizzie
1939
0.0
Hollywood Hobbies
as Tourist
1939
5.3
Blondie Meets the Boss
as Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
1939
5.8
Man from Music Mountain
as Patsy
1938
5.7
The Higgins Family
as Lizzie
1938
0.0
Exiled to Shanghai
as Mabel
1937
4.9
The Big Show
as Toodles Brown
1936
4.2