Sally Payne
Sally Payne
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 film debut in 1936 in the Gene Autry vehicle The Big Show. She became a leading lady in B films, which were usually westerns. She also played in comedy shorts for RKO Radio Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She is most remembered for playing Calamity Jane in Young Bill Hickok (1940). Despite being at the top of her career, Payne retired in 1942 after her marriage to Arthur F. Kelly. In her later years, she ran her own book store. Payne died of a stroke at the age of 86. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sally Payne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. --- Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1999, Obituaries: Sally Payne Kelly; Artist, Actress in '30s and '40s Sally Payne Kelly, a character actress of the 1930s and '40s and an artist who illustrated children's books, has died. She was believed to be in her mid-80s. Kelly, who was married to airline executive Arthur F. Kelly for more than half a century, died Saturday in their Bel-Air home. Originally known as the "Sunshine Girl" of artists' models, Sally Payne came to Hollywood under contract to Republic Studios. There, she appeared in a number of westerns with such cowboy stars as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.
