Wanda Hendrix

Wanda Hendrix
Born	Dixie Wanda Hendrix November 3, 1928(1928-11-03) Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Died	February 1, 1981(1981-02-01) (aged 52) Burbank, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1945–1972
Spouse	Audie Murphy (1949–1950) Jim Stack (1954–1958) Steve LaMonte (1969–1979)

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 1946, Audie Murphy saw Hendrix on the cover of Coronet magazine and arranged to meet her. The two were married on February 8, 1949, making the film Sierra (1950) together, 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.

Filmography

This is only a partial list of her film work. Some of her films have been released for Home Media, or are available on-line, such as The Admiral Was a Lady.

Edmond O'Brien and Wanda Hendrix, in The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)

•Stage to Thunder Rock (1964) as Mrs. Swope

•Johnny Cool (1963) as Miss Connolly

•The Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961) as Laura

•Highway Dragnet (1954) as Susan

•The Golden Mask (1954)

•Sea of Lost Ships (1954) as Pat Kirby

•The Black Dakotas (1954) as Ruth Lawrence

•The Last Posse (1953) as Deborah Morley

•Montana Territory (1952) as Clair Enoch

•The Highwayman (1951) as Bess

•My Outlaw Brother (1951) as Señorita Carmelita Alvarado

•Sierra (1950) as Riley Martin

•The Admiral Was a Lady (1950) as Jean Madison

•Saddle Tramp (1950) as Della

•Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) as Giulia [de Cresci] de Greffi

•Prince of Foxes (1949) as Camilla

•Song of Surrender (1949) as Abigail Hunt

•My Own True Love (1949) as Sheila Heath

•Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948) as Nan Tatlock

•Welcome Stranger (1947) as Emily [Walters]

•Ride the Pink Horse (1947) as Pila

•Variety Girl (1947) as Herself

•Nora Prentiss (1947) as Bonita Talbot

•Confidential Agent (1945) as Else

External links

• Wanda Hendrix at the Internet Movie Database
• Wanda Hendrix at Find a Grave
• Wanda Hendrix at Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen