Career
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 Mission 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. 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 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.
The couple divorced on November 3, 1958.
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.