Rochelle Hudson

Known for ActingBorn 1916-03-06Died 1972-01-17Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

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.Read more

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Konga, the Wild Stallion

Life Begins at Forty

The Past of Mary Holmes

Bosko and Honey

Pirates of the Skies

Woman-Wise

Walls of Gold

The Officer and the Lady

Smuggled Cargo

Everybody's Old Man

Rebel Without a Cause

Circus Daze

Show Them No Mercy!

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

That I May Live

77 Sunset Strip

Les Misérables

Branded

Pride of the Navy

A Woman is the Judge

Rascals

Imitation of Life

Poppy

The Country Beyond

Reunion

The Music Goes 'Round

Bosko's Parlor Pranks

Such Women Are Dangerous

Mr. Skitch

Fanny Foley Herself

The Night Walker

Strait-Jacket

Wild Boys of the Road

Are These Our Children?

Men Without Souls

Racket Squad

Doctor Bull

Notorious But Nice

Secrets of the French Police

Bosko the Speed King

Ride Him, Bosko

Harold Teen

Bachelor Bait

Curly Top

Judge Priest

Queen of Broadway

The Stork Pays Off

Babies for Sale