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Jean Wallace

Jean Wallace

Birthday: 1923-10-12 | Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

​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

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1967
Beach Red

as    Julie MacDonald

1963
Lancelot and Guinevere

as    Guinevere

1957
The Devil's Hairpin

as    Kelly James

1955
Storm Fear

as    Elizabeth

1955
The Big Combo

as    Susan Lowell

1950
The Good Humor Man

as    Bonnie Conroy

1949
Jigsaw

as    Barbara Whitfield

1949
The Man on the Eiffel Tower

as    Edna Wallace

1946
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

as    Bess Williams