Movies: Sally Payne

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him....

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her scowling family, and Abner has no idea how to proceed. The film's narrator has us cut away to the kitc...

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places....

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who p...

Scanlon is pulling off a land swindle by selling lots in a ghost town claiming the power company is bringing in a line. As a bonus he throws in shares in a worthless gold mine. Gene is on to Scanlon and tries to get him to buy back the deeds by salti...

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family....

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars....

A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own....

Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close....

This comedic short looks at human foibles that lead to major aggravations....

Five years after he narrated STRIKES AND SPARES, Pete Smith returns to the subject of bowling with two pros: Andy Varipapa, who threw some trick shots in the earlier movie and Ned Day, who demonstrates proper form and technique....

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store....

The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys....

After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star-filled rodeo....

Two autograph hounds attend an air show at Santa Anita racetrack....

Leon Errol disguises himself as a mystic, in order to fool repo men....

Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends....

The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers....

Edgar, his wife and his brother-in-law are riding through the desert in a convertible to see a restaurant that Edgar has purchased sight unseen. They camp in a ghost town and Edgar sees a "Gold Nugget Restaurant" sign and it dawns on him that is his ...

Edgar decides the 4th of July fireworks celebration in town is too much for his nerves, and he and his wife Sally and her brother will take a nice drive out into the countryside and have a nice, peaceful picnic. His first mistake is inviting the sons...