Career
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 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. She was Polish American.