Highest rated movie: I Love You Again (1940)
Lowest rated movie: Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
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Looking for reviews of Sally Payne movies? Cinafilm has a total of 66 reviews across 11 movies.
Movies starring Sally Payne have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.
I Love You Again - released in 1940 - is Sally Payne's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 26 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Sally Payne is Robin Hood of the Pecos - released in 1941 - with a score of 46% based on 1 reviews.
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.
Sally Payne has acted in films with George 'Gabby' Hayes, Roy Rogers, Jack Kirk and Fred Burns.
Sally Payne has worked with these film directors: Joseph Kane, A. Edward Sutherland, Jean Negulesco and W.S. Van Dyke.
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