Name
Jean Wallace
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1923-10-12
Deathday
1990-02-14 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Known For
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Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as thr...
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A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and ...
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Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster t...
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A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of...
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In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which ta...
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A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home....
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A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a ...
- 1970 No Blade of Grass as Ann Custance
- 1949 Jigsaw as Barbara Whitfield
- 1955 The Big Combo as Susan Lowell
- 1963 Sword of Lancelot as Guinevere
- 1967 Beach Red as Julie MacDonald
- 1949 The Man on the Eiffel Tower as Edna Wallace
- 1955 Storm Fear as Elizabeth
- 1950 The Good Humor Man as Bonnie Conroy
- 1951 Native Son as Mary Dalton
- 1946 It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog as Bess Williams
- 1958 Maracaibo as Laura Kingsley
- 1947 Blaze of Noon as Poppy
- 1954 Star of India as Countess Katrina
- 1944 You Can't Ration Love as Madge
- 1941 Glamour Boy as Girl (uncredited)
- 1948 When My Baby Smiles at Me as Sylvia Marco
- 1941 Ziegfeld Girl as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
- 1957 The Devil's Hairpin as Kelly James
- 1941 Louisiana Purchase as Louisiana Belle
- 1943 Salute for Three as Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Leslie Mason
- 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ( 1 episode )
