Actor
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 sle ...

Known For
Acting
1970 -- No Blade of Grass | Ann Custance
1967 -- Beach Red | Julie MacDonald
1963 -- Lancelot and Guinevere | Guinevere
1958 -- Maracaibo | Laura Kingsley
1957 -- The Devil's Hairpin | Kelly James
1955 -- Storm Fear | Elizabeth
1955 -- The Big Combo | Susan Lowell
1954 -- Star of India | Countess Katrina
1951 -- Native Son | Mary Dalton
1950 -- The Good Humor Man | Bonnie Conroy
1949 -- The Man on the Eiffel Tower | Edna Wallace
1949 -- Jigsaw | Barbara Whitfield
1948 -- When My Baby Smiles at Me | Sylvia Marco
1947 -- Blaze of Noon | Poppy
1946 -- It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog | Bess Williams
1944 -- You Can't Ration Love | Madge (uncredited)
1943 -- Salute for Three | Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
1941 -- Louisiana Purchase | Louisiana Belle
1941 -- Glamour Boy | Girl (uncredited)
1941 -- Ziegfeld Girl | Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
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