Jean Wallace
Acting Born Oct 12, 1923 Chicago, Illinois, USA 23 credits
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.
Ask the Vault
Ask anything about Jean Wallace.
Full filmography
- The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) as Self
- Ziegfeld Girl (1941) as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
- General Electric Theater (1953) as Leslie Mason
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
- The Big Combo (1955) as Susan Lowell
- Maracaibo (1958) as Laura Kingsley
- Sword of Lancelot (1963) as Guinevere
- Blaze of Noon (1947) as Poppy
- Beach Red (1967) as Julie MacDonald
- No Blade of Grass (1970) as Ann Custance
- Native Son (1951) as Mary Dalton
- Jigsaw (1949) as Barbara Whitfield
- The Good Humor Man (1950) as Bonnie Conroy
- Star of India (1954) as Countess Katrina
- Louisiana Purchase (1941) as Louisiana Belle
- Storm Fear (1955) as Elizabeth
- The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) as Edna Wallace
- Glamour Boy (1941) as Girl (uncredited)
- The Devil's Hairpin (1957) as Kelly James
- Salute for Three (1943) as Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
- You Can't Ration Love (1944) as Madge
- When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948) as Sylvia Marco
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946) as Bess Williams