Jean Wallace
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 12, 1923
- Died
- February 14, 1990
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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
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
Native Son 1951
as Mary Dalton
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)
Louisiana Purchase 1941
as Louisiana Belle
Glamour Boy 1941
as Girl (uncredited)
Ziegfeld Girl 1941
as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
Credits from TMDB.