Editing William Bendix (section)

==Personal life==
Bendix married a childhood friend, Theresa Stefanotti, on October 22, 1927. They remained married until his death 37 years later in 1964. The couple had a daughter, Lorraine, and adopted another, Stephanie.<ref name=NYT/>

Bendix died in Los Angeles at age 58 in 1964 as the result of a chronic stomach ailment that brought on malnutrition and ultimately [[lobar pneumonia]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Manbeck |first1=John B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HH1s4R3d99oC&dq=%22William+Bendix%22+%221964%22&pg=PA27 |title=The Brooklyn Film: Essays in the History of Filmmaking |last2=Singer |first2=Robert |date=June 28, 2010 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8120-0 |pages=27 |language=en}}</ref> He was interred at the [[San Fernando Mission Cemetery]] in [[Mission Hills, Los Angeles]].{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

Bendix was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]. During the [[U.S. presidential election, 1944|1944 presidential election]] campaign, he attended a large rally organized by [[David O. Selznick]] in the [[Los Angeles Coliseum]] in support of the [[Thomas E. Dewey|Dewey]]-[[John W. Bricker|Bricker]] ticket as well as Governor [[Earl Warren]] of California.<ref>{{cite book|first1=David M.|last1=Jordan|title=FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944|location=Bloomington|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=2011|page=[https://archive.org/details/fdrdeweyelection0000jord/page/231 231]|isbn=978-0-253-35683-3|url=https://archive.org/details/fdrdeweyelection0000jord/page/231}}</ref>