Wanda Hendrix

Wanda Hendrix

Born: November 3, 1928
Died: February 1, 1981
in Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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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 1949, Audie Murphy saw Hendrix on the cover of a magazine and asked to meet her. They were married on February 8, 1949, 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 empathy.

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 retired from acting, but made occasional appearances in television series such as My Three Sons and Wagon Train and Bewitched. The couple divorced on November 3, 1958. She married Italian financier and oil company executive Steven LaMonte on June 7, 1969. They divorced on November 17, 1980.

She died in Burbank, California from double pneumonia at the age of 52, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

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The Oval Portrait
Title: The Oval Portrait
Character: Lisa Buckingham
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting. Based on a work by Edgar Allan Poe, aka The Oval Portrait.
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One Minute Before Death
Title: One Minute Before Death
Character: Genevieve Howard
Released: June 14, 1972
Type: Movie
A plot to murder a rich woman results in her ending up in a catatonic state and buried alive.
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Mystic Mountain Massacre
Title: Mystic Mountain Massacre
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A horror movie set in a mysterious mountain that is haunted by old ghosts.
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Stage to Thunder Rock
Title: Stage to Thunder Rock
Character: Sarah Swope
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
An aging sheriff is put in the position of having to arrest the outlaw father and two sons with whom he was raised.
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Title: Bewitched
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: TV
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
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Johnny Cool
Title: Johnny Cool
Character: Miss Connolly
Released: October 2, 1963
Type: Movie
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
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Boy Who Caught a Crook
Title: Boy Who Caught a Crook
Character: Laura
Released: October 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster.
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Title: My Three Sons
Released: September 29, 1960
Type: TV
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
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Title: Lock-Up
Released: September 28, 1959
Type: TV
Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Daphne Kaye
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: Telephone Time
Released: April 8, 1956
Type: TV
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Maggie
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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The Black Dakotas
Title: The Black Dakotas
Character: Ruth Lawrence
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold. This attracts the attention of Brock Marsh, the secret leader of a Confederate spy ring, who wants to keep the treaty from being signed and to also get his hands on the gold. Ruth Lawrence and Mike Daugherty work together against the machinations of Marsh
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Highway Dragnet
Title: Highway Dragnet
Character: Susan Willis
Released: January 20, 1954
Type: Movie
An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise when the women realize the man with them may be a killer.
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Sea of Lost Ships
Title: Sea of Lost Ships
Character: Pat Kirby
Released: October 24, 1953
Type: Movie
The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgrace to his adopted family.
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The Last Posse
Title: The Last Posse
Character: Deborah
Released: July 4, 1953
Type: Movie
A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Lucie Manette
Released: May 3, 1953
Type: Movie
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.
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South of Algiers
Title: South of Algiers
Character: Anne Burnet
Released: March 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
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Montana Territory
Title: Montana Territory
Character: Clair Enoch
Released: May 31, 1952
Type: Movie
John Malvin , prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner and his son. He eludes the outlaws by hiding near a stagecoach relay station run by "Possum" Enoch and his daughter Clair, with whom John Falls in love with. Sheriff Henry Plummer, secret head of the outlaws, learns John witnessed the killings and sends him as his deputy on a dangerous mission with a planned ambush.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Norma Bailey
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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My Outlaw Brother
Title: My Outlaw Brother
Character: Senorita Carmel Alvarado
Released: August 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged with bringing in, El Tigre and his gang of bandits, takes Danny under his wing.
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The Highwayman
Title: The Highwayman
Character: Bess Forsythe
Released: August 11, 1951
Type: Movie
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Sumatra
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Saddle Tramp
Title: Saddle Tramp
Character: Della
Released: September 21, 1950
Type: Movie
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.
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The Admiral Was a Lady
Title: The Admiral Was a Lady
Character: Jean Madison
Released: August 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
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Sierra
Title: Sierra
Character: Riley Martin
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
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Title: Your Show of Shows
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: TV
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Title: Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Character: Baronessa Giulia de Greffi
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey, the mission causes the deaths of many bystanders -- among them, Carey believes, his Italian girlfriend, Giulia de Graffi. Back home, Carey stumbles across evidence that might uncover the identity of the informant. But, when he returns to Italy to get even, Carey is stunned by what he finds.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Prince of Foxes
Title: Prince of Foxes
Character: Camilla Verano
Released: November 11, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...
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Song of Surrender
Title: Song of Surrender
Character: Abigail Hunt
Released: October 27, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in their ages in this May-to-December union, Elizha is a man of culture while Abigail is uneducated. Bruce Edridge, young, handsome and wealthy, comes into her life, and they fall in love. Abigail is now faced with two choices; the chance of wealth versus her present mediocre circumstances, or her love for Bruce versus her loyalty to Elisha.
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Miss Tatlock's Millions
Title: Miss Tatlock's Millions
Character: Nancy "Nan" Tatlock
Released: November 19, 1948
Type: Movie
After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the estate of Miss Tatlock's millions.
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My Own True Love
Title: My Own True Love
Character: Sheila Heath
Released: July 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
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Ride the Pink Horse
Title: Ride the Pink Horse
Character: Pila
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
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Hollywood Wonderland
Title: Hollywood Wonderland
Character: Tour Guide (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
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Welcome Stranger
Title: Welcome Stranger
Character: Emily Walters
Released: June 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
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Nora Prentiss
Title: Nora Prentiss
Character: Bonita 'Bunny' Talbot
Released: February 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
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Confidential Agent
Title: Confidential Agent
Character: Else
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.