Jean Wallace
Acting • Born 1923-10-12 – Died 1990-02-14
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.
Filmography
23 credits
No Blade of Grass
Movie • 1970
Ann Custance
Jigsaw
Movie • 1949
Barbara Whitfield
The Big Combo
Movie • 1955
Susan Lowell
Sword of Lancelot
Movie • 1963
Guinevere
Beach Red
Movie • 1967
Julie MacDonald
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Movie • 1949
Edna Wallace
Storm Fear
Movie • 1955
Elizabeth
The Good Humor Man
Movie • 1950
Bonnie Conroy
Native Son
Movie • 1951
Mary Dalton
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Movie • 1946
Bess Williams
Maracaibo
Movie • 1958
Laura Kingsley
Blaze of Noon
Movie • 1947
Poppy
Star of India
Movie • 1954
Countess Katrina
Glamour Boy
Movie • 1941
Girl (uncredited)
You Can't Ration Love
Movie • 1944
Madge
When My Baby Smiles at Me
Movie • 1948
Sylvia Marco
Ziegfeld Girl
Movie • 1941
Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
The Devil's Hairpin
Movie • 1957
Kelly James
Louisiana Purchase
Movie • 1941
Louisiana Belle
Salute for Three
Movie • 1943
Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Leslie Mason
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951