Jean Wallace
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Big Combo (1955)
as Susan Lowell
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
Native Son (1951)
as Mary Dalton
Beach Red (1967)
as Julie MacDonald
No Blade of Grass (1970)
as Ann Custance
Storm Fear (1955)
as Elizabeth
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
as Edna Wallace
The Good Humor Man (1950)
as Bonnie Conroy
Sword of Lancelot (1963)
as Guinevere
Maracaibo (1958)
as Laura Kingsley
Star of India (1954)
as Countess Katrina
Jigsaw (1949)
as Barbara Whitfield
Louisiana Purchase (1941)
as Louisiana Belle
Blaze of Noon (1947)
as Poppy
Glamour Boy (1941)
as Girl (uncredited)
The Devil's Hairpin (1957)
as Kelly James
You Can't Ration Love (1944)
as Madge
Salute for Three (1943)
as Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)
as Bess Williams
When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
as Sylvia Marco