Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
10/12/1923
Place of Birth
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 burie...
Known For
Beach Red
as Julie MacDonald
Glamour Boy
as Girl (uncredited)
Jigsaw
as Barbara Whitfield
Maracaibo
as Laura Kingsley
Louisiana Purchase
as Louisiana Belle
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Edna Wallace
The Big Combo
as Susan Lowell
Star of India
as Countess Katrina
Sword of Lancelot
as Guinevere
Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
Salute for Three
as Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
Native Son
as Mary Dalton
No Blade of Grass
as Ann Custance
Blaze of Noon
as Poppy
The Devil's Hairpin
as Kelly James
You Can't Ration Love
as Madge
The Good Humor Man
as Bonnie Conroy
When My Baby Smiles at Me
as Sylvia Marco
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Bess Williams
Storm Fear
as Elizabeth