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Jean Wallace
Actor
Born October 12, 1923Died February 14, 1990 (66 years)
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.
Wallace died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage on February 14, 1990. She is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Jean Wallace Filmography
| 2009 | The Rules of Film Noir · as Susan Lowell (clip From The Big Combo 1955)) |
| 1970 | No Blade of Grass · as Ann Custance |
| 1967 | Beach Red · as Julie Macdonald |
| 1963 | Sword of Lancelot · as Guinevere |
| 1958 | Maracaibo · as Laura Kingsley |
| 1957 | The Devil's Hairpin · as Kelly James |
| 1955 | Storm Fear · as Elizabeth |
| 1955 | The Big Combo · as Susan Lowell |
| 1954 | Star of India · as Countess Katrina |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Leslie Mason |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) |
| 1951 | Native Son · as Mary Dalton |
| 1950 | The Good Humor Man · as Bonnie Conroy |
| 1949 | The Man on the Eiffel Tower · as Edna Wallace |
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| 1948 | When My Baby Smiles at Me · as Sylvia Marco |
| 1947 | Blaze of Noon · as Poppy |
| 1946 | It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog · as Bess Williams |
| 1941 | Louisiana Purchase · as Louisiana Belle |
| 1941 | Ziegfeld Girl · as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited) |
| 1965 | I'll Bet (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self - Actress |
| 1960 | Here's Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1950 | The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1947 | Stump the Stars (TV Series) · as Self |