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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 12, 1923
Died
February 14, 1990
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jean Wallace
0.2 Popularity
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
5.2
Ann Custance
No Blade of Grass
1970
6.5
Julie MacDonald
Beach Red
1967
4.3
Guinevere
Sword of Lancelot
1963
5.2
Laura Kingsley
Maracaibo
1958
5.0
Kelly James
The Devil's Hairpin
1957
6.0
Elizabeth
Storm Fear
1955
7.0
Susan Lowell
The Big Combo
1955
3.7
Countess Katrina
Star of India
1954
6.4
Leslie Mason
General Electric Theater
1953
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Credits
No Blade of Grass
as Ann Custance
1970
5.2
Beach Red
as Julie MacDonald
1967
6.5
Sword of Lancelot
as Guinevere
1963
4.3
Maracaibo
as Laura Kingsley
1958
5.2
The Devil's Hairpin
as Kelly James
1957
5.0
Storm Fear
as Elizabeth
1955
6.0
The Big Combo
as Susan Lowell
1955
7.0
Star of India
as Countess Katrina
1954
3.7
General Electric Theater
as Leslie Mason
1953
6.4
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Native Son
as Mary Dalton
1951
5.2
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
The Good Humor Man
as Bonnie Conroy
1950
6.0
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Edna Wallace
1949
5.1
Jigsaw
as Barbara Whitfield
1949
4.8
When My Baby Smiles at Me
as Sylvia Marco
1948
4.8
Blaze of Noon
as Poppy
1947
4.0
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Bess Williams
1946
5.6
You Can't Ration Love
as Madge
1944
0.0
Salute for Three
as Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
1943
0.0
Louisiana Purchase
as Louisiana Belle
1941
6.6
Glamour Boy
as Girl (uncredited)
1941
6.0
Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
1941
6.5