Jean Wallace

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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.

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1970
No Blade of Grass
Movie Ann Custance
1967
Beach Red
Movie Julie MacDonald
1963
Sword of Lancelot
Movie Guinevere
1958
Maracaibo
Movie Laura Kingsley
1957
The Devil's Hairpin
Movie Kelly James
1955
Storm Fear
Movie Elizabeth
1955
The Big Combo
Movie Susan Lowell
1954
Star of India
Movie Countess Katrina
1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Leslie Mason
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV show
1951
Native Son
Movie Mary Dalton
1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV show Self
1950
The Good Humor Man
Movie Bonnie Conroy
1949
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Movie Edna Wallace
1949
Jigsaw
Movie Barbara Whitfield
1948
When My Baby Smiles at Me
Movie Sylvia Marco

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1947
Blaze of Noon
Movie Poppy
1946
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Movie Bess Williams
1944
You Can't Ration Love
Movie Madge
1943
Salute for Three
Movie Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
1941
Louisiana Purchase
Movie Louisiana Belle
1941
Glamour Boy
Movie Girl (uncredited)
1941
Ziegfeld Girl
Movie Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)