Jean Wallace
Personal Info
Acting
October 11, 1923 (66 years old)
February 13, 1990
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jean Wallace
Biography
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
No Blade of Grass
1970
as Ann Custance
Beach Red
1967
as Julie MacDonald
Sword of Lancelot
1963
as Guinevere
Maracaibo
1958
as Laura Kingsley
The Devil's Hairpin
1957
as Kelly James
Storm Fear
1955
as Elizabeth
The Big Combo
1955
as Susan Lowell
Star of India
1954
as Countess Katrina
General Electric Theater
1953
as Leslie Mason
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Native Son
1951
as Mary Dalton
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
The Good Humor Man
1950
as Bonnie Conroy
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949
as Edna Wallace
Jigsaw
1949
as Barbara Whitfield
When My Baby Smiles at Me
1948
as Sylvia Marco
Blaze of Noon
1947
as Poppy
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1946
as Bess Williams
You Can't Ration Love
1944
as Madge
Salute for Three
1943
as Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)