Jean Wallace was an American television and film actress.

Biography

Born Jean Walasek in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 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

Franchot Tone

Franchot Tone was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty and many other films through the 1960s...

 from 1941 to 1948 and once to actor Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde was an American actor and film director.-Early life:Kornél Lajos Weisz was born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary , although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City...

 (her co-star in The Big Combo

The Big Combo

The Big Combo is an American film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stylistically photographed by cinematographer and noir icon John Alton with music by David Raksin....

and Lancelot and Guinevere

Lancelot and Guinevere

Lancelot and Guinevere is a British 1963 film starring Cornel Wilde, his real-life wife at the time, Jean Wallace, and Brian Aherne...

) from 1951 to 1981. She had two sons with Tone and one with Wilde. She attempted suicide in 1946 with sleeping pills

Sleeping pills

Sleeping pills may refer to:*Hypnotic, a drug used to induce sleep*Sleeping Pills , an American film by Michael Lauter...

, and in 1949 with a self inflicted knife wound.

Wallace died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage

Gastrointestinal bleeding

Gastrointestinal bleeding or gastrointestinal hemorrhage describes every form of hemorrhage in the gastrointestinal tract, from the pharynx to the rectum. It has diverse causes, and a medical history, as well as physical examination, generally distinguishes between the main forms...

 on February 14, 1990. She is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, originally called Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California. It is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood...

.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1941	Ziegfeld Girl Ziegfeld Girl (film) Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 American film starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana Turner, and co-starring Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper, Eve Arden, and Philip Dorn. Released by MGM, it was directed by Robert Z...	Ziegfeld girl	Uncredited
	Glamour Boy	Girl	Uncredited
	Louisiana Purchase Louisiana Purchase (film) Louisiana Purchase is a 1941 film adaptation of the musical theater play, Louisiana Purchase. A Paramount Pictures production, the film was directed by Irving Cummings with Robert Emmett Dolan serving as musical director as he had done for the play. Starring comedian Bob Hope, the film featured...	Louisiana Belle
1943	Salute for Three	Hostess offering Buzz apple from basket
1944	You Can't Ration Love	Madge
1946	It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog	Bess Williams
1947	Blaze of Noon	Poppy
1948	When My Baby Smiles at Me	Sylvia Marco	Uncredited
1949	Jigsaw	Barbara Whitfield	Alternative title: Gun Moll
	The Man on the Eiffel Tower The Man on the Eiffel Tower The Man on the Eiffel Tower is a 1949 American mystery film directed by Burgess Meredith, Charles Laughton, Irving Allen and starring Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Meredith, and Robert Hutton. It is based on the 1931 novel La Tête d'un homme by Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his...	Edna Wallace
1950	The Good Humor Man	Bonnie Conroy
1951	Native Son Native Son (1951 film) Native Son is a 1951 black-and-white Argentine film directed by the French filmmaker Pierre Chenal. It is based on the novel of the same name by controversial American author Richard Wright who also starred in the film.-Cast:...	Mary Dalton	Alternative title: Sangre negra
1954	Star of India Star of India (film) Star of India is a 1954 British adventure film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Herbert Lom and Walter Rilla. Its Italian title was Stella Dell'India.-Cast:* Cornel Wilde - Pierre St...	Katrina	Alternative title: Stella dell'India
1955	The Big Combo The Big Combo The Big Combo is an American film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stylistically photographed by cinematographer and noir icon John Alton with music by David Raksin....	Susan Lowell
	Storm Fear	Elizabeth
1957	The Devil's Hairpin	Kelly James
1958	Maracaibo	Laura Kingsley
1963	Lancelot and Guinevere Lancelot and Guinevere Lancelot and Guinevere is a British 1963 film starring Cornel Wilde, his real-life wife at the time, Jean Wallace, and Brian Aherne...	Guinevere	Alternative title: Sword of Lancelot
1967	Beach Red Beach Red Beach Red is a 1967 World War II film starring Cornel Wilde and Rip Torn. The film depicts a landing by the U.S. Marine Corps on an unnamed Japanese held Pacific island...	Julie MacDonald	Appears in flashback photos; sings the title song
1970	No Blade of Grass	Ann Custance
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1952	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, is a weekly CBS anthology television series, was telecast on Friday nights from 1951 until 1959. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by Schlitz beer...		1 episode
1955	General Electric Theater General Electric Theater General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.-Radio:...	Leslie Mason	1 episode

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