Rochelle Hudson
Birthday: 1916-03-06 | Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USARochelle 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Helen Spalding
as Emily Cutler
as Hilda
as Amy Winthrop
as Margo Delgado
as Hilary Ward
as Nikki
as Cecelia Bradley
as Betty Andrews
as Frances White Ryan
as Lorraine Danel
as Gloria Tyler
as Kay Roberts
as Victoria 'Vicki' Mason
as Honey
as Sybil Roberts
as Cosette
as Mary Blair
as Ellen
as Jessie Pullman, Age 18
as Lillian 'Lillums' Lovewell
as Virginia Maydew
as Emily Skitch
as Grace
as Honey
as Sally
as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
as Mary Ellen
