Jean Wallace
Actor
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
No Blade of Grass
as Ann Custance 1970
Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited) 1941
Beach Red
as Julie MacDonald 1967
Storm Fear
as Elizabeth 1955
Jigsaw
as Barbara Whitfield 1949
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Edna Wallace 1949
Sword of Lancelot
as Guinevere 1963
Native Son
as Mary Dalton 1951
Louisiana Purchase
as Louisiana Belle 1941
Star of India
as Countess Katrina 1954
The Good Humor Man
as Bonnie Conroy 1950
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Bess Williams 1946
When My Baby Smiles at Me
as Sylvia Marco 1948
Maracaibo
as Laura Kingsley 1958
Blaze of Noon
as Poppy 1947
Glamour Boy
as Girl (uncredited) 1941