John Payne

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John Howard Payne (May 23, 1912 – December 6, 1989) was an American film actor best remembered for his roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC Western television series The Restless Gun, and many of his film noir crime stories and twentieth-century Fox musical films.

Early life

Payne was born in Roanoke, Virginia. Ida Hope (née Schaeffer), a singer, graduated from the Virginia Seminary in Roanoke and married George Washington Payne, a builder in Roanoke. They lived at Fort Lewis, an antebellum mansion that later became a state historic house but was destroyed by fire in the late 1940s.

Payne attended Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and then moved to Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. In the fall of 1930, he transferred to Columbia University in New York City. He studied drama at Columbia University and voice at Juilliard School. He took on a variety of odd jobs in order to support himself, including wrestling as "Alexei Petroff, the Savage of the Steppes" and boxing as "Tiger Jack Payne."

In Roanoke, Virginia, he returned often to visit his family.

Personal life

Payne served as a flight instructor in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. In September 1944, he was discharged with a full refund.

Payne was married to actress Anne Shirley from 1937 to 1942; the couple had a daughter, Julie Anne Payne.

He married actress Gloria DeHaven in 1944; the couple had two children, Kathleen Hope Payne (b. ), and Patrick Hope Payne (b. Thomas John Payne, 1945, and Thomas John Payne, before divorcing in 1950. The couple stayed on good terms, and DeHaven's 1961 columnist Earl Wilson wrote a post about Payne's death in March 1961 and called him every week.

Payne had a love affair with co-star Coleen Gray that went well beyond filming. They appeared together in Tennessee's Partner, alongside future US President Ronald Reagan.

Payne married Alexandra Beryl "Sandy" Crowell Curtis in 1953 and remained with her until her death.

Julie Towne, his eldest daughter, was married to writer-director Robert Towne from 1977 to 1982.

Payne, a Republican, was one of many conservative figures to drive in the Nixon-Lodge Bumper Sticker Motorcade in Los Angeles in October 1960. In the 1964 US presidential election, Payne also endorsed Barry Goldwater.

Payne was hospitalized on the evening of March 1, 1961, while crossing Madison Avenue in New York City. It had been raining, and future billionaire hedge fund manager Bernard Selz said he had not seen Payne. Payne was thrown into the air and crashed face first into the vehicle's windshield, causing extensive facial bruises, including damage to both his eyes. His left leg was fractured in five ways, and he sustained a skull fracture.

Payne was admitted to Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West), where he underwent facial surgery. He had been in a hip cast for five and a half months. He said his complete recovery was due to doctors' advice that a patient's behavior is important, and he kept optimistic.

Payne's first public appearance during this period was as a guest panelist on CBS' "What's My Line?" Dorothy Kilgallen, a regular panelist, welcomed Payne in the hospital following a tragic accident in December 3, 1961. So it's good to see him play as a fiddle and all in a single piece." "Good to see you here, John," a regular panelist Bennett Cerf said. Glad to see you beat the car on Madison Avenue that bumped into you."

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Acting career

Payne was discovered by a talent scout for the Shubert theaters in 1934 and was given a job as a stock player. He appeared in Rose Marie and The Student Prince's road company productions for $40 a week.

Payne appeared on several Shubert Brothers tours and appeared on New York City-based radio stations frequently. He appeared in the Broadway revue At Home Abroad (1935–36), alongside Ethel Waters, Eleanor Powell, and Beatrice Lillie. He understudied for Reginald Gardiner, and it took over a night. Fred Kohlmar of Sam Goldwyn's company was seen by him and was offered a movie job.

In 1936, he left New York for Hollywood. Harry McKee, the son-in-law of Walter Huston's titular character, appeared in Dodsworth's Dodsworth in his first appearance.

In Hats Off (1936), an independent film, he played Jimmy Maxwell.

Payne was the third billed in Fair Warning (1937), at Fox, and he was the lead in Love on Toast (1937). He was not involved in (1938) He played a small part in Paragu's College Swing (1938).

Payne played Don Vincent in Garden of the Moon (1938). He served in Kid Nightingale (1939) and Wings of the Navy (1939). Payne was a fan of Ann Sheridan in Indianapolis Speedway (1939).

During this period, he returned to Broadway to appear in Abe Lincoln, Illinois (1938–39). Payne was dissatisfied with his Warner Bros. jobs and asked for a divorce.

Payne appeared in Star Dust (1940), which was the 20th Century Fox. Darryl F. Zanuck, a film assistant, gave him a long-term deal.

He played a supporting role in Maryland (1940) and The Great Profile (1940).

Payne appeared on The Great American Broadcast (1940), appeared in the film Tin Pan Alley (1940), and Sun Valley Serenade (1941).

In Remember the Day (1941) and To the Shores of Tripoli (1942), Fox gave him the opportunity to act drama.

After serving in the military during World War II, Payne returned to Fox and appeared in The Dolly Sisters (1945), portraying Harry Fox. It was one of Payne's most well-received films.

Payne appeared in Sentimental Journey (1946) and appeared in The Razor's Edge (1946).

Payne's most familiar role in the classic holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947) with Natalie Wood, Maun O'Hara, and Edmund Gwenn may be his last film for Fox. It was another successful box office runoff. Sitting Pretty (1948), he was supposed to make another with O'Hara (1948). However, he was released from the studio in October 1947, four years to run, earning him $670,000. Payne admitted that he was dissatisfied with the roles being offered.

Payne later said he had been asking for his freedom every week for eight months before he received it. Jeanine Basinger, a film historian, later wrote that "Fox considered [Payne] as a secondary Tyrone Power." They didn't know how to use him."

Payne attempted to make his name change and begin playing tough-guy characters in Hollywood films noir after leaving Fox.

He appeared in The Saxon Charm (1948), and performed two noirs at Universal, Larceny (1948), where he appeared in the lead role. In The Crooked Way (1949) for United Artists, he was the lead.

Payne was offered the opportunity to appear in a Western for Pine-Thomas Productions, a Payne was given the opportunity to appear in a Western for the company, which was based out of El Paso (1949), the company's first film, was released. Other characters appeared in Captain China (1950), an adventure film set during the Barbary War; and The Eagle and the Hawk (1950), a Western.

He was in Passage West (1951), another Western; and Crosswinds (1952), an adventure film; and The Vanquished (1952), a Western.

Payne maintained that the films he appeared in were shot in color and that the film rights revert to him after several years, making him wealthy when he rented them to television.

He said he got four times the fan mail at Fox in 1952. "I make less photographs now, but I make the ones I want to make."

Payne appeared in Kansas City Confidential (1952), a noir film, and owned 25% of the film. He appeared on Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953), a pirate film, and 99 River Street (1953), a noir.

Payne did a series of Westerns: Silver Lode (1954), for Benedict Bogeaus (1955), Rails Across Laramie (1955), Payne's Paraphrasedoutput; and The Road to Denver (1955) at Independence; Payne's Brother (1955) for Bogeaus; and Bentley's Partner (1955) at Nashville (1955) for Bogeaus.

He bought a $1,000-a-month version of the Ian Fleming James Bond book Moonraker in 1955 (he eventually gave up the choice after finding he could not keep the rights for the entire book series).

He returned to Pine-Thomas for a noir, Hell's Island (1956), then Slightly Scarlet (1956) for Bogeaus. He produced Hold Back the Night (1956) for Allied Artists and The Boss (1956) for United Artists and The Boss (1956), co-producing the latter. Hidden Fear, another noir film shot in Denmark, was shot by him.

Payne appeared in one more Pine-Thomas film, Bailout at 43,000 (1957), starring Major Paul Peterson.

Vint Bonner appeared in The Restless Gun, a half-hour western that aired on NBC Monday evenings from September 23, 1957 to September 14, 1959. He was a gunfighter who preferred not to fight if other options were available. The Six Shooter was based on a previous radio series starring James Stewart, which was originally based on a James Stewart based on The Six Shooter. On October 31, 1957, Payne appeared on The Ford Show, hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Payne produced They Ran for Their Lives (1968), one of his last films, and appeared with Alice Faye in a 1974 revival of the musical Good News. In 1970, he appeared in "Gentry's Law" in Gunsmoke.

In 1975, he co-starred with Peter Falk and Janet Leigh in the Columbo episode "Forgotten Lady." Payne made fortune through real estate investments in southern California later in life.

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