- Wanda Hendrix
Infobox actor
name = Wanda Hendrix
imagesize = 175px
caption =
birthname = Dixie Wanda Hendrix
birthdate = birth date|1928|11|3
location =Jacksonville, Florida , USA
deathdate = death date and age|1981|02|1|1928|11|3 (pneumonia)
deathplace =Burbank, California ,USA
occupation = Actress,Musician
spouse = Steve LaMonte (1969-1979)
Jim Stack (1954-1958)
Audie Murphy (1949-1950)Wanda Hendrix (
November 3 ,1928 –February 1 ,1981 ) was an Americanfilm andtelevision actress.Biography
Early life
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.Acting career and marriage
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 withTyrone 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 soon after, but the marriage lasted less than a year. Hendrix later said that Murphy had wanted her to give up her career, but more significantly he was suffering frompost traumatic stress disorder from his service inWorld 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. After a few years she married and retired from acting, but made occasional appearances in
television series such as "My Three Sons " and "Bewitched ".She died in
Burbank, California from double pneumonia at the age of 52, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery.pouses
* Steven LaMonte (Italian financier and oil company executive) (7 June 1969 - 17 November 1980) (divorced)
* James Langford Stack, Jr. (wealthy sportsman) (26 June 1954 - 3 November 1958) (divorced)
*Audie Murphy (8 February 1949 - 14 April 1950) (divorced)External links
*imdb name|id=0376905|name= Wanda Hendrix
* [http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/129/Wanda++Hendrix/ Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen - Wanda Hendrix]
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