- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 12, 1923
- Place of Birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died
- February 14, 1990
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
movieNo Blade of Grass
1970 · Ann Custance
movieBeach Red
1967 · Julie MacDonald
movieSword of Lancelot
1963 · Guinevere
movieMaracaibo
1958 · Laura Kingsley
movieThe Devil's Hairpin
1957 · Kelly James
movieStorm Fear
1955 · Elizabeth
movieThe Big Combo
1955 · Susan Lowell
movieStar of India
1954 · Countess Katrina
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953 · Leslie Mason
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
movieNative Son
1951 · Mary Dalton
tvThe Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
movieThe Good Humor Man
1950 · Bonnie Conroy
movieThe Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949 · Edna Wallace
movieJigsaw
1949 · Barbara Whitfield
movieWhen My Baby Smiles at Me
1948 · Sylvia Marco
movieBlaze of Noon
1947 · Poppy
movieIt Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1946 · Bess Williams
movieYou Can't Ration Love
1944 · Madge
movieSalute for Three
1943 · Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
movieLouisiana Purchase
1941 · Louisiana Belle
movieGlamour Boy
1941 · Girl (uncredited)
movieZiegfeld Girl
1941 · Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)