Jean Wallace

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Wallace, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

The Big Combo

as Susan Lowell

No Blade of Grass

as Ann Custance

Ziegfeld Girl

as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)

Beach Red

as Julie MacDonald

Storm Fear

as Elizabeth

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

as Edna Wallace

Jigsaw

as Barbara Whitfield

Sword of Lancelot

as Guinevere

Native Son

as Mary Dalton

The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self