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