Wanda Hendrix is a Actor American born on 3 november 1928 at Jacksonville (USA)
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Birth name Dixie Wanda HendrixNationality USABirth 3 november 1928 at Jacksonville (
USA)
Death 1 february 1981 (at 52 years) at Burbank (
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. 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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