Birthday
1923/10/12
Day of death
1990/02/14 (66 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also know as
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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...Read more
(1970) No Blade of Grass
as Ann Custance
(1949) Jigsaw
as Barbara Whitfield
(1955) The Big Combo
as Susan Lowell
(1963) Lancelot and Guinevere
as Guinevere
(1967) Beach Red
as Julie MacDonald
(1949) The Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Edna Wallace
(1955) Storm Fear
as Elizabeth
(1950) The Good Humor Man
as Bonnie Conroy
(1951) Native Son
as Mary Dalton
(1946) It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Bess Williams
(1958) Maracaibo
as Laura Kingsley
(1947) Blaze of Noon
as Poppy
(1954) Star of India
as Countess Katrina
(1941) Glamour Boy
as Girl (uncredited)
(1944) You Can't Ration Love
as Madge (uncredited)
(1948) When My Baby Smiles at Me
as Sylvia Marco
(1941) Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
(1957) The Devil's Hairpin
as Kelly James
(1941) Louisiana Purchase
as Louisiana Belle
(1943) Salute for Three
as Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
(1950) The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Leslie Mason
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---