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