Actor
Jean Wallace
Born October 12, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died February 14, 199020 films
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.
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Wallace died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage on February 14, 1990. She is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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First watchThe Big Combo19557.0as Susan LowellPolice Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.View filmFilmography
20 films as actor- 1970No Blade of GrassAnn Custance
- 1967Beach RedJulie MacDonald
- 1963Sword of LancelotGuinevere
- 1958MaracaiboLaura Kingsley
- 1957The Devil's HairpinKelly James
- 1955Storm FearElizabeth
- 1955The Big ComboSusan Lowell
- 1954Star of IndiaCountess Katrina
- 1951Native SonMary Dalton
- 1950The Good Humor ManBonnie Conroy
- 1949The Man on the Eiffel TowerEdna Wallace
- 1949JigsawBarbara Whitfield
- 1948When My Baby Smiles at MeSylvia Marco
- 1947Blaze of NoonPoppy
- 1946It Shouldn't Happen to a DogBess Williams
- 1944You Can't Ration LoveMadge
- 1943Salute for ThreeHostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
- 1941Louisiana PurchaseLouisiana Belle
- 1941Glamour BoyGirl (uncredited)
- 1941Ziegfeld GirlZiegfeld Girl (uncredited)