Wanda Hendrix

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Dixie Wanda Hendrix<ref name="kj" /> (November 3, 1928 – February 1, 1981) was an American film and television actress.<ref>Obituary Variety, February 11, 1981.</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early lifeEdit

Hendrix's father was a logging foreman,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and she was born in Jacksonville, Florida.<ref name="clac">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="kj">Template:Cite news</ref>

Career and marriagesEdit

Hendrix made her first film, Confidential Agent,<ref name="kj" /> 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).

From 1946, she dated Audie Murphy<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and her agent got him an early small film role.Template:Sfn They married in 1949,Template:Sfn but divorced in 1951.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

On June 26, 1954, Hendrix 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. Stack and she divorced on November 3, 1958.<ref name=Glamour>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She married Italian financier and oil company executive Steven LaMonte on June 7, 1969; they divorced on November 17, 1980.<ref name=Glamour />

DeathEdit

Hendrix died on February 1, 1981, in Burbank, California from double pneumonia, aged 52, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery.<ref name="clac" />

Partial filmographyEdit

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Confidential Agent (1945) as Else
Nora Prentiss (1947) as Bonita Talbot
Welcome Stranger (1947) as Emily Walters
Hollywood Wonderland (1947 short) as Tour Guide (uncredited)
Variety Girl (1947) (uncredited)
Ride the Pink Horse (1947) as Pila
My Own True Love (1948) as Sheila Heath
Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948) as Nan Tatlock
Song of Surrender (1949) as Abigail Hunt
Prince of Foxes (1949) as Camilla
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) as Giulia [de Cresci] de Greffi
Sierra (1950) as Riley Martin
The Admiral Was a Lady (1950) as Jean Madison
Saddle Tramp (1950) as Della
The Highwayman (1951) as Bess Forsythe
My Outlaw Brother (1951) as Señorita Carmelita Alvarado
Montana Territory (1952) as Clair Enoch
South of Algiers (1953) as Anne Burnet
The Last Posse (1953) as Deborah Morley
Sea of Lost Ships (1953) as Pat Kirby
Highway Dragnet (1954) as Susan
The Black Dakotas (1954) as Ruth Lawrence
The Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961) as Laura
Johnny Cool (1963) as Miss Connolly
Stage to Thunder Rock (1964) as Mrs. Swope
The Oval Portrait (1972) as Lisa Buckingham

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