Jean Wallace
Acting
1923-10-12 · 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.
movieNo Blade of Grass
as Ann Custance · 1970 · 5.3
movieBeach Red
as Julie MacDonald · 1967 · 6.5
movieSword of Lancelot
as Guinevere · 1963 · 4.6
movieMaracaibo
as Laura Kingsley · 1958 · 6.5
movieThe Devil's Hairpin
as Kelly James · 1957 · 6.0
movieStorm Fear
as Elizabeth · 1955 · 6.0
movieThe Big Combo
as Susan Lowell · 1955 · 7.0
movieStar of India
as Countess Katrina · 1954 · 4.4
tvGeneral Electric Theater
as Leslie Mason · 1953 · 6.8
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
as · 1951 · 7.2
movieNative Son
as Mary Dalton · 1951 · 5.5
tvThe Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self · 1950 · 6.9
movieThe Good Humor Man
as Bonnie Conroy · 1950 · 6.3
movieThe Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Edna Wallace · 1949 · 5.2
movieJigsaw
as Barbara Whitfield · 1949 · 5.0
movieWhen My Baby Smiles at Me
as Sylvia Marco · 1948 · 5.5
movieBlaze of Noon
as Poppy · 1947 · 5.7
movieIt Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Bess Williams · 1946 · 5.8
movieYou Can't Ration Love
as Madge · 1944 · 8.0
movieSalute for Three
as Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed) · 1943 · 9.0
movieLouisiana Purchase
as Louisiana Belle · 1941 · 6.7
movieGlamour Boy
as Girl (uncredited) · 1941 · 6.5
movieZiegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited) · 1941 · 6.7