1928-11-03 ( 96 years old ) in Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Wanda Hendrix (November 3, 1928 – February 1, 1981) was an American film and television actress.
Born Dixie Wanda Hendrix in Jacksonville, Florida, Hendrix was performing in her local amateur theater when she was seen by a talent agent who signed her to a Hollywood contract. She made her first film, Confidential Agent, in 1945 and for the first few years of her career was consistently cast in "B" pictures. 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.
In 1949, Audie Murphy saw Hendrix on the cover of a magazine and asked to meet her. They were married on February 8, 1949, but the marriage was short-lived; they divorced on April 14, 1950. Hendrix later said that Murphy had wanted her to give up her career, but more significantly, he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder from his service in World War II and during "flashback" episodes he would turn on her, once holding her at gunpoint. In her later years, Hendrix spoke of Murphy's condition with empathy.
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 retired from acting, but made occasional appearances in television series such as My Three Sons and Wagon Train and Bewitched. The couple 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.
She died in Burbank, California from double pneumonia at the age of 52, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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Movies
The Oval Portrait
1973-01-01
One Minute Before Death
1972-06-14
Mystic Mountain Massacre
1971-01-01
Stage to Thunder Rock
1964-11-11
Johnny Cool
1963-10-02
Boy Who Caught a Crook
1961-10-01
The Black Dakotas
1954-09-02
Highway Dragnet
1954-01-20
Sea of Lost Ships
1953-10-24
The Last Posse
1953-07-04
A Tale of Two Cities
1953-05-03
South of Algiers
1953-03-17
Montana Territory
1952-05-31
My Outlaw Brother
1951-08-22
The Highwayman
1951-08-11
Saddle Tramp
1950-09-21
The Admiral Was a Lady
1950-08-04
Sierra
1950-05-26
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1950-02-21
Prince of Foxes
1949-11-11
Song of Surrender
1949-10-27
Miss Tatlock's Millions
1948-11-19
My Own True Love
1948-07-01
Ride the Pink Horse
1947-10-08
Hollywood Wonderland
1947-08-09
Welcome Stranger
1947-06-13
Nora Prentiss
1947-02-22
Confidential Agent
1945-11-02
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