Jean Wallace
Born Jean Walasek in Chicago to John T. Walasek and Mary A. Walasek (née Sharkey), Wallace began her career as a model then got her first small movie role at the age of seventeen. She was married two times; once to her Jigsaw co-star Franchot Tone from 1941 to 1948 and once to actor Cornel Wilde (her co-star in The Big Combo and Lancelot and Guinevere) from 1951 to 1981. She had two sons with Tone and one with Wilde. She attempted suicide in 1946 with sleeping pills, and in 1949 with a self inflicted knife wound. Wallace died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage on February 14, 1990. She is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Filmography (23 titles)
5.3MovieNo Blade of Grass
Ann Custance · 1970
6.5MovieBeach Red
Julie MacDonald · 1967
4.6MovieSword of Lancelot
Guinevere · 1963
6.5MovieMaracaibo
Laura Kingsley · 1958
6.0MovieThe Devil's Hairpin
Kelly James · 1957
6.0MovieStorm Fear
Elizabeth · 1955
7.0MovieThe Big Combo
Susan Lowell · 1955
4.4MovieStar of India
Countess Katrina · 1954
6.8ShowGeneral Electric Theater
Leslie Mason · 1953
7.2ShowSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
5.5MovieNative Son
Mary Dalton · 1951
6.9ShowThe Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · 1950
6.3MovieThe Good Humor Man
Bonnie Conroy · 1950
5.2MovieThe Man on the Eiffel Tower
Edna Wallace · 1949
5.0MovieJigsaw
Barbara Whitfield · 1949
5.5MovieWhen My Baby Smiles at Me
Sylvia Marco · 1948
5.7MovieBlaze of Noon
Poppy · 1947
5.8MovieIt Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Bess Williams · 1946
8.0MovieYou Can't Ration Love
Madge · 1944
9.0MovieSalute for Three
Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed) · 1943
6.7MovieLouisiana Purchase
Louisiana Belle · 1941
6.5MovieGlamour Boy
Girl (uncredited) · 1941
6.7MovieZiegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited) · 1941