Wanda Hendrix

Wanda Hendrix
Wanda Hendrix 1958.jpg
in Wagon Train, 1958
Born
Dixie Wanda Hendrix

(1928-11-03)November 3, 1928
DiedFebruary 1, 1981(1981-02-01) (aged 52)
OccupationActress
Years active1945–1972
Spouse(s)Audie Murphy (1949–1950)
Jim Stack (1954–1958)
Steve LaMonte (1969–1980)

Dixie Wanda Hendrix (November 3, 1928 – February 1, 1981) was an American film and television actress.

Early life

Hendrix's father was a logging foreman, and she was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She was performing in a school play in Jacksonville when she was seen by a talent agent who took her to Warner Bros. Her parents moved with her to California, buying a ranch there. She graduated from University High School.

Career and marriages

She made her first film, Confidential Agent, in 1945 at the age of 16, and for the first few years of her career was consistently cast in B movies. By the late 1940s, she was being included in more prestigious films, such as Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948). She starred with Tyrone Power in Prince of Foxes (1949).

Hendrix resumed her career but found it difficult to obtain good roles. On June 26, 1954, she married wealthy sportsman James Langford Stack, Jr., the brother of actor Robert Stack, and essentially retired from films, though she worked in live television dramatic anthology shows such as Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, Robert Montgomery Presents, The Plymouth Playhouse, The Ford Television Theatre, The Revlon Mirror Theater, and Schlitz Playhouse, and occasionally appeared in later series such as Bat Masterson, My Three Sons, Wagon Train and Bewitched. She and Stack divorced on November 3, 1958. She married Italian financier and oil company executive Steven LaMonte on June 7, 1969; they divorced on November 17, 1980.[citation needed]

Death

Hendrix died on February 1, 1981, in Burbank, California from double pneumonia, aged 52, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Partial filmography


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