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Wanda Hendrix is a Actor American born on 3 november 1928 at Jacksonville (USA)
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 sympathy.
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 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. The couple divorced on November 3, 1958. She married Italian financier and oil company executive Steven LaMonte (born 14 August 1942) on June 7, 1969. They divorced on November 17, 1980.
She died in 1981, in Burbank, California from double pneumonia at the age of 52, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
À la télévision, elle apparaît dans vingt séries dès 1950, dont La Grande Caravane (un épisode, 1958) et Ma sorcière bien-aimée (un épisode, 1971). Elle tient son ultime rôle dans un épisode de Police Story, diffusé en 1974.
Wanda Hendrix meurt prématurément en 1981 à 52 ans, d'une pneumonie aiguë.
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Wanda Hendrix
Birth name Dixie Wanda Hendrix
Nationality USA
Birth 3 november 1928 at Jacksonville (USA)
Death 1 february 1981 (at 52 years) at Burbank (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 3 november 1928 at Jacksonville (USA)
Death 1 february 1981 (at 52 years) at Burbank (USA)
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 sympathy.
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 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. The couple divorced on November 3, 1958. She married Italian financier and oil company executive Steven LaMonte (born 14 August 1942) on June 7, 1969. They divorced on November 17, 1980.
She died in 1981, in Burbank, California from double pneumonia at the age of 52, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Biography
Au cinéma, Wanda Hendrix contribue à vingt-six films (majoritairement américains, dont des westerns), le premier étant Agent secret d'Herman Shumlin (avec Charles Boyer et Lauren Bacall), sorti en 1945. Suivent notamment Et tournent les chevaux de bois de Robert Montgomery (1947, avec le réalisateur et Andrea King), Échec à Borgia d'Henry King (1949, avec Tyrone Power et Orson Welles), Le Dénonciateur de Mitchell Leisen (1950, avec Alan Ladd et Francis Lederer), Sierra d'Alfred E. Green (1950, avec Audie Murphy et Burl Ives), My Outlaw Brother d'Elliot Nugent (1951, avec Mickey Rooney et Robert Stack), et Au sud d'Alger de Jack Lee (film britannique, 1953, avec Van Heflin et Eric Portman). Son dernier film sort en 1972.À la télévision, elle apparaît dans vingt séries dès 1950, dont La Grande Caravane (un épisode, 1958) et Ma sorcière bien-aimée (un épisode, 1971). Elle tient son ultime rôle dans un épisode de Police Story, diffusé en 1974.
Wanda Hendrix meurt prématurément en 1981 à 52 ans, d'une pneumonie aiguë.
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Stage to Thunder Rock (1964)
, 1h22Directed by William F. Claxton
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Barry Sullivan, Marilyn Maxwell, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney, Jr., Anne Seymour, John Agar
Roles Sarah Swope
Rating56%
Après qu'ils ont cambriolé une banque, le shérif Horne poursuit Sawyer et ses deux fils. Mais le banquier victime du hold-up juge que Horne est bien trop intègre pour cette mission. Il propose alors une récompense à Sam Swope, un ancien shérif, pour restituer l'argent volé. Ainsi s'engage une double course-poursuite...
Johnny Cool (1963)
, 1h43Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Richard Anderson, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop, Brad Dexter
Roles Miss Connolly
Rating63%
Johnny Colini, an exiled American living in Rome, rescues Salvatore Giordano, a young Sicilian outlaw, from the police. After Giordano is groomed, polished, and renamed "Johnny Cool," Colini sends him on a mission of vengeance to the United States to assassinate the men who plotted his downfall and enforced exile. Johnny arrives in New York and quickly kills several of the underworld figures on Colini's list.
Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961)
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Wanda Hendrix, Don Beddoe, Roger Mobley, Robert Stevenson, Richard Crane, Johnny Seven
Roles Laura
Rating55%
Highway Dragnet (1954)
, 1h10Directed by Nathan Juran
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley, Mary Beth Hughes, Iris Adrian
Roles Susan Willis
Rating62%
A former Korean War-era Marine hitches a ride with a female fashion photographer and her young assistant to escape from the Las Vegas police on a murder charge.
The Black Dakotas (1954)
, 1h5Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix, John Bromfield, Noah Beery, Jr, Fay Roope, Jay Silverheels
Roles Ruth Lawrence
Rating54%
Over footage from The Man from Colorado, opening titles inform the audience that during the Civil War the Confederate States of America sent agitators to the American West to incite Indian tribes against the Federal Government to draw troops away from battles in the East.
South of Algiers (1953)
, 1h28Directed by Jack Lee
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Van Heflin, Wanda Hendrix, Eric Portman, Charles Goldner, Jacques François, Aubrey Mather
Roles Anne Burnet
Rating53%
Doctor Burnet (Portman), a scholar of ancient history at the British Museum, is obsessed with finding the legendary and priceless Golden Mask of Moloch, believed to be buried in the lost tomb of a Roman general somewhere in the Algerian desert. He plans his latest expedition of discovery, but lacks funds to pay for an archaeologist to accompany him. He learns from the museum curator that Nicholas Chapman (Heflin), an American author of popular archaeology books, is eager to go along and work without pay, on the understanding that he will be able to publish his experiences in magazine articles and book form. Burnet is dubious of Chapman's expertise and good-faith, but finally agrees to let him join the party.
The Last Posse (1953)
, 1h13Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Derek, Broderick Crawford, Wanda Hendrix, Charles Bickford, Warner Anderson, Henry Hull
Roles Deborah
Rating65%
When the anxiously awaited posse returns with neither prisoners nor the stolen money, we learn through flashbacks from three different characters, what took place. Having been cheated by Sampson Drune, a father and his two sons have robbed him and fled. A posse led by Drune took off after them and although unwanted, the town's drunken Sheriff joined them. The Sheriff's influence on Jed, the adopted son of Drune, is the key to Jed later revealing who killed Drune, the robbers, and what happened to the money.
Sea of Lost Ships (1953)
, 1h25Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action
Actors John Derek, Wanda Hendrix, Walter Brennan, Richard Jaeckel, Tom Tully, Barton MacLane
Roles Pat Kirby
Rating68%
My Outlaw Brother (1952)
, 1h22Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Robert Stack, José Torvay, Don "Red" Barry
Roles Senorita Carmel Alvarado
Rating52%
Danny O'Moore, an Irish lad from New York, has not seen big brother Patrick for eight years. Patrick is said to now own a silver mine in Mexico and sends welcome money to his family in America.
Montana Territory (1952)
, 1h4Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Lon McCallister, Clayton Moore, Hugh Sanders, Wanda Hendrix, Preston Foster, Jack Elam
Roles Clair Enoch
Rating60%
Montana is on the brink of statehood, but in need of law and order. John Malvin (Lon McCallister) witnesses the murder of a miner and his son by men who turn out to be Yeager (Robert Griffin), Ives (Clayton Moore) and Gimp (Jack Elam). He learns later that Ives is a deputy to the sheriff, Henry Plummer (Preston Foster).
The Highwayman (1951)
, 1h22Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Swashbuckler, Adventure
Actors Philip Friend, Charles Coburn, Wanda Hendrix, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Jory, Dan O'Herlihy
Roles Bess Forsythe
Rating68%
The fairly straightforward love/betrayal/sacrifice theme of the Noyes poem is expanded to fill out the demands of an 82 minute long film. The Highwayman himself is an aristocrat who leads a party of associates to hold up the well-to-do and distribute their takings to the needy. This campaign is broadened when they discover that innocents are being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the colonies. The finale however follows the poem more closely as the Highwayman is betrayed to the authorities, soldiers march to set an ambush, his lover Bess sacrifices herself to give warning and the hero is shot down on the highway as he gallops to take revenge.
The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
, 1h27Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallée, Johnny Sands, Steve Brodie, Richard Erdman
Roles Jean Madison
Rating58%
After the end of World War II, Jean Madison (Wanda Hendrix), a former WAVE ensign, meets the former aircrew of an Army Air Corps A-20 Havoc light bomber named "Sinful Sinthia" when they go to collect their unemployment benefits. They are all members of the "52-20 Club," a government program which pays unemployed American veterans $20 a week for 52 weeks. Jimmy and his men "prove" to the government clerk that they are looking for work by placing an ad in the newspaper - "At liberty: combat crew. Four specialists eager and willing to drop bombs" - and receive their checks.
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
, 1h22Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Alan Ladd, Joseph Calleia, Wanda Hendrix, Francis Lederer, Celia Lovsky, Frank Puglia
Roles Baronessa Giulia de Greffi
Rating64%
A group of agents of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (a forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency) is sent to German-occupied Italy during World War II to knock out the German-held Italian railroad system. In accomplishing this mission, most of them are killed because of an inside betrayal.
Sierra (1950)
, 1h23Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Wanda Hendrix, Burl Ives, Dean Jagger, Tony Curtis, Elliott Reid
Roles Riley Martin
Rating63%
Jeff Hassard (Dean Jagger) and his son Ring (Audie Murphy) lead an isolated existence in the mountains breaking horses, because Jeff is wanted for a murder he did not commit. Their lives are interrupted when they stumble upon a young woman, Riley (Wanda Hendrix). When Jeff is injured, Ring has to go into town to get help.
Saddle Tramp (1950)
Directed by Hugo Fregonese
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Wanda Hendrix, John Russell, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan, Russell Simpson
Roles Della
Rating68%
Carefree Chuck Connor est sur son chemin vers l'Ouest et arrête de voir un vieil ami et ses quatre garçons. Lorsque son hôte est tué dans un accident de cheval Chuck se rend compte qu'il doit prendre soin de la famille. Ils ont frappé la route et il prend un emploi dans un ranch, mais il doit garder les enfants cachés comme son patron déteste les enfants. Il y a également des tensions avec le ranch voisin, et quand une fille sur la course de son oncle méchant rejoint la famille se demande sans préavis Chuck ce qu'il a fait pour mériter tout cela.