
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 buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Acting (20 movies)

No Blade of Grass
1970

Jigsaw
1949

The Big Combo
1955

Sword of Lancelot
1963

Beach Red
1967

The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949

Storm Fear
1955

The Good Humor Man
1950

Native Son
1951

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1946

Maracaibo
1958

Blaze of Noon
1947

Star of India
1954

You Can't Ration Love
1944

Glamour Boy
1941

When My Baby Smiles at Me
1948

Ziegfeld Girl
1941

The Devil's Hairpin
1957

Louisiana Purchase
1941

Salute for Three
1943
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