Rochelle Hudson
Biography
Rochelle Hudson (March 6, 1916 — January 17, 1972) was an American film actress from the 1930s through the 1960s. Hudson was a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1931. The Oklahoma City-born actress began her career as a teenager. She had signed a contract with RKO Pictures on November 22, 1930, when she was 17 years old. She may be best remembered today for costarring in Wild Boys of the Road (1933), playing Cosette in Les Misérables (1935), playing Mary Blair, the older sister of Shirley Temple's character in Curly Top, and for playing Natalie Wood's mother in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). During her peak years in the 1930s, notable roles for Hudson included: Richard Cromwell's love interest in the Will Rogers showcase Life Begins at 40 (1935), the daughter of carnival barker W. C. Fields in Poppy (1936) and Claudette Colbert's adult daughter in Imitation of Life (1934). She played Sally Glynn, the fallen ingenue to whom Mae West imparts the immortal wisdom, "When a girl goes wrong, men go right after her!" in the 1933 Paramount film, She Done Him Wrong. In the 1954–1955 television season, Hudson co-starred with Gil Stratton and Eddie Mayehoff in the CBS situation comedy That's My Boy, based on a 1951 Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin film of the same name.
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Movies (45)
Gallery of Horror
as Helen Spalding
1967
The Night Walker
as Hilda
1964
Strait-Jacket
as Emily Cutler
1964
Rebel Without a Cause
as Judy's Mother
1955
Sky Liner
as Amy Winthrop
1949
Devil's Cargo
as Margo Delgado
1948
Bush Pilot
as Hilary Ward
1947
Queen of Broadway
as Sherry Baker
1942
Rubber Racketeers
as Nikki
1942
The Officer and the Lady
as Helen Regan
1941
The Stork Pays Off
as Irene Perry
1941
Meet Boston Blackie
as Cecelia Bradley
1941
Girls Under 21
as Frances White Ryan
1940
Babies for Sale
as Ruth Williams
1940
Island of Doomed Men
as Lorraine Danel
1940
Men Without Souls
as Suzan Leonard
1940
Convicted Woman
as Betty Andrews
1940
A Woman is the Judge
as Justine West
1939
Konga, the Wild Stallion
as Judith Hadley
1939
Smuggled Cargo
as Marian Franklin
1939
Missing Daughters
as Kay Roberts
1939
Pride of the Navy
as Gloria Tyler
1939
Pirates of the Skies
1939
Storm Over Bengal
as Joan Lattimore
1938
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
as Victoria 'Vicki' Mason
1938
Rascals
as Margaret Adams
1938
That I May Live
1937
She Had to Eat
as Ann Garrison
1937
Born Reckless
as Sybil Roberts
1937
Bosko's Easter Eggs
as Honey (voice)
1937
Woman-Wise
as Alice Fuller
1937
Circus Daze
as Honey (voice)
1937
Reunion
as Mary MacKenzie
1936
Poppy
as Poppy
1936
The Country Beyond
as Jean Alison
1936
Everybody's Old Man
as Cynthia Sampson
1936
The Music Goes 'Round
as Susanna Courtney
1936
Show Them No Mercy!
as Loretta Martin
1935
Way Down East
as Anna Moore
1935
Curly Top
as Mary Blair
1935
Les Misérables
as Cosette
1935
Life Begins at Forty
as Adele Anderson
1935
I've Been Around
as Drue Waring
1935
The Mighty Barnum
as Ellen
1934
Bosko's Parlor Pranks
as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
1934
