Cast & creator
Jean Wallace
Best known for The Colgate Comedy Hour, General Electric Theater, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
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.
20
film credits
3
television credits
23
1941–1970 · acting roles
6.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (23)
Showing 23 of 23 credits
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
General Electric Theater
Leslie Mason
1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
1941
No Blade of Grass
Ann Custance
1970
The Big Combo
Susan Lowell
1955
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Edna Wallace
1949
Beach Red
Julie MacDonald
1967
Native Son
Mary Dalton
1951
Maracaibo
Laura Kingsley
1958
The Good Humor Man
Bonnie Conroy
1950
Sword of Lancelot
Guinevere
1963
Storm Fear
Elizabeth
1955
You Can't Ration Love
Madge
1944
The Devil's Hairpin
Kelly James
1957
Blaze of Noon
Poppy
1947
When My Baby Smiles at Me
Sylvia Marco
1948
Jigsaw
Barbara Whitfield
1949
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Belle
1941
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Bess Williams
1946
Star of India
Countess Katrina
1954
Salute for Three
Hostess Offering Buzz Apple From Basket (unconfirmed)
1943
Glamour Boy
Girl (uncredited)
1941