[1] Hendrix made her first film, Confidential Agent,[1] in 1945 at the age of 16, and for the first few years of her career was consistently cast in B movies.

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).

[9] On June 26, 1954, Hendrix 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.

[10] She married Italian financier and oil company executive Steven LaMonte on June 7, 1969; they divorced on November 17, 1980.

[10] Hendrix died on February 1, 1981, in Burbank, California from double pneumonia, aged 52, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery.