Rochelle Hudson
Known For
Acting
Born
1916-03-06 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Died
1972-01-17
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.
Most Known For
77 Sunset Strip
Racket Squad
Branded
Harold Teen
as Lillian 'Lillums' Lovewell
Mr. Skitch
as Emily Skitch
Woman-Wise
as Alice Fuller
Dumb Patrol
as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bachelor Bait
as Cynthia Douglas
I'm the Law
Rebel Without a Cause
as Judy's Mother
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
as Helen Spalding
Fanny Foley Herself
as Carmen
Imitation of Life
as Jessie Pullman, Age 18
The Night Walker
as Hilda
Strait-Jacket
as Emily Cutler
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Polly Grover
Les Misérables
as Cosette
She Done Him Wrong
as Sally
Island of Doomed Men
as Lorraine Danel
The Penguin Pool Murder
as Telephone Operator