1941Nominee
Best Performance
Ziegfeld Girl
Jean Wallace
Actor
Chicago, Illinois, USA
October 12, 1923
Biography
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1958Nominee
Best Performance
Maracaibo
1955Nominee
Best Performance
The Big Combo
Career Highlights
1951Highlight
Best Performance
Native Son
1967Highlight
Best Performance
Beach Red
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Ziegfeld Girl
The Big Combo
Native Son