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Biography of Jean Wallace - Actress
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Chicago-born Jean Wallace (October 12, 1923 - February 14, 1990) was a film actress who was married 3 times; once to actor Cornel Wilde (her co-star in The Big Combo) from 1951 to 1981 and once to her Jigsaw (movie) co-star Franchot Tone from 1941 to 1948. 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.

