1912-09-05 ( 112 years old ) in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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.
Movies
Ain't It Aggravatin'
1954-02-06
Cash Stashers
1953-08-29
Bargain Madness
1951-07-04
Inferior Decorator
1943-04-13
Mountain Rhythm
1943-01-08
Cooks and Crooks
1942-06-05
Romance on the Range
1942-05-18
Soaring Stars
1942-04-25
Man from Cheyenne
1942-01-16
A Quiet Fourth
1941-12-19
Red River Valley
1941-12-12
Tuxedo Junction
1941-11-25
Jesse James at Bay
1941-10-17
I'll Fix It
1941-10-07
Westward Ho-Hum
1941-09-15
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941-09-05
Nevada City
1941-06-19
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941-05-07
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941-04-11
In Old Cheyenne
1941-04-04
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941-01-14
No, No, Nanette
1940-12-19
One Night in the Tropics
1940-11-15
Wedding Bills
1940-11-13
Rodeo Dough
1940-11-09
Young Bill Hickok
1940-10-21
City for Conquest
1940-09-21
When the Daltons Rode
1940-08-23
Money and the Woman
1940-08-17
I Love You Again
1940-08-09
Bested by a Beard
1940-07-16
La Conga Nights
1940-05-31
The Domineering Male
1940-03-30
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939-11-22
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939-11-08
Let's Talk Turkey
1939-10-28
Set 'em Up
1939-10-06
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1939-09-02
Culinary Carving
1939-07-01
My Wife's Relatives
1939-05-20
Hollywood Hobbies
1939-05-03
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939-03-08
Man from Music Mountain
1938-08-15
The Higgins Family
1938-03-28
Exiled to Shanghai
1937-12-20
The Big Show
1936-11-16
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