Jean Wallace
| Jean Wallace | |
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Jean Wallace in The Big Combo
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| Born |
Jean Walasek October 12, 1923 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | February 14, 1990 (aged 66) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1941 – 1970 |
| Spouse(s) |
Franchot Tone (m. 1941–48) (divorce) Jim Lloyd Randall (m. 1950–50) (annulment) Cornel Wilde (m. 1951–81) (divorce) |
Jean Wallace (October 12, 1923 – February 14, 1990) was an American television and film actress.
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 three times: to her Jigsaw co-star Franchot Tone from 1941 to 1948, to former US Army Captain Jim Lloyd Randall (marriage and annulment in 1950), and 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 (Pascal "Pat" Franchot Tone (b. Jul. 29, 1943; Thomas Jefferson Tone b. Sep. 16, 1945) and one with Wilde (Cornel Wilde, b. Dec. 19, 1967). 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.
She was Polish American.
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