Jean Wallace

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Actress Wallace in The Big Combo

Chicago-born Jean Wallace (born: Jean "Janina" Walasek to Polish parents) (October 12, 1923 - February 14, 1990) was a film actress who was married 2 times; once to her Jigsaw (movie) 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. She began her career as a model then got her first small movie role at the age of seventeen.