Jean Wallace

Jean Wallace Trailers

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​ 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.

Most Popular Jean Wallace Trailers

Total trailers found: 20

Louisiana Purchase Trailer (1941)

31 December 1941

A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.

Maracaibo Trailer (1958)

21 May 1958

A firefighter is sent to Venezuela to battle a blazing oil well but still finds time for romance.

The Good Humor Man Trailer (1950)

24 March 1950

Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator.

Salute for Three Trailer (1943)

17 March 1943

Press agent Jimmy Gates gets an idea while watching a New York parade, for a returned war hero Sergeant Buzz McAllister, with his chief client, singer Judy Ames; Dona Drake, leader of an all-girl orchestra; his photographer Foggy, and his secretary Myrt.

Star of India Trailer (1954)

02 January 1954

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back taxes, and resold to Katrina, a Dutch Countess.

Blaze of Noon Trailer (1947)

02 May 1947

In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots.

You Can't Ration Love Trailer (1944)

28 February 1944

In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their dates so that all of them can have some fun.

Sword of Lancelot Trailer (1963)

02 June 1963

Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere.

Ziegfeld Girl Trailer (1941)

25 April 1941

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

The Big Combo Trailer (1955)

13 February 1955

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

Storm Fear Trailer (1955)

16 December 1955

A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.

No Blade of Grass Trailer (1970)

20 June 1970

A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos.

The Man on the Eiffel Tower Trailer (1949)

12 December 1949

A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize that they may have to wrong man.

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog Trailer (1946)

01 July 1946

A pretty blonde with a Doberman pinscher walks into a bar on April Fool's Day and asks for a bag of bones.

Jigsaw Trailer (1949)

11 March 1949

New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy launches an investigation into a series of murders related to a neo-fascist organisation.

Native Son Trailer (1951)

02 March 1951

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

When My Baby Smiles at Me Trailer (1948)

10 November 1948

Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the road.

The Devil's Hairpin Trailer (1957)

04 October 1957

Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit.

Beach Red Trailer (1967)

03 August 1967

American troops storm ashore on a Japanese-held island and push inland while their enemies plan a counterattack in this look at warfare.

Glamour Boy Trailer (1941)

05 December 1941

Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood.