Rochelle Hudson
Born: 1916-03-06 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Died: 1972-01-17
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1967
- Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors as Helen Spalding
1965
1964
- The Night Walker as Hilda
- Strait-Jacket as Emily Cutler
1958
1955
- Rebel Without a Cause as Judy's Mother
1953
1951
- Racket Squad
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Polly Grover
1949
- Sky Liner as Amy Winthrop
1948
- Devil's Cargo as Margo Delgado
1947
- Bush Pilot as Hilary Ward
1942
- Queen of Broadway as Sherry Baker
- Rubber Racketeers as Nikki
1941
- The Stork Pays Off as Irene Perry
- The Officer and the Lady as Helen Regan
- Meet Boston Blackie as Cecelia Bradley
1940
- Convicted Woman as Betty Andrews
- Island of Doomed Men as Lorraine Danel
- Men Without Souls as Suzan Leonard
- Babies for Sale as Ruth Williams
- Girls Under 21 as Frances White Ryan
1939
- Pirates of the Skies
- Konga, the Wild Stallion as Judith Hadley
- Pride of the Navy as Gloria Tyler
- Missing Daughters as Kay Roberts
- Smuggled Cargo as Marian Franklin
- A Woman is the Judge as Justine West
1938
- Mr. Moto Takes a Chance as Victoria 'Vicki' Mason
- Rascals as Margaret Adams
- Storm Over Bengal as Joan Lattimore
1937
- She Had to Eat as Ann Garrison
- That I May Live
- Woman-Wise as Alice Fuller
- Born Reckless as Sybil Roberts
- Bosko's Easter Eggs as Honey (voice)
- Circus Daze as Honey (voice)
1936
- Poppy as Poppy
- Reunion as Mary MacKenzie
- Everybody's Old Man as Cynthia Sampson
- The Music Goes 'Round as Susanna Courtney
- The Country Beyond as Jean Alison
1935
- Curly Top as Mary Blair
- Les Misérables as Cosette
- Way Down East as Anna Moore
- Show Them No Mercy! as Loretta Martin
- Life Begins at Forty as Adele Anderson
- I've Been Around as Drue Waring
1934
- Imitation of Life as Jessie Pullman, Age 18
- Judge Priest as Virginia Maydew
- Bachelor Bait as Cynthia Douglas
- The Mighty Barnum as Ellen
- Harold Teen as Lillian 'Lillums' Lovewell
- Such Women Are Dangerous as Vernie Little
- How Do I Know It's Sunday as Various
- Bosko's Parlor Pranks as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
1933
- She Done Him Wrong as Sally
- Wild Boys of the Road as Grace
- Doctor Bull as Virginia (Muller)/Banning
- Mr. Skitch as Emily Skitch
- The Past of Mary Holmes as Betty
- Scarlet River as Herself (uncredited)
- Lucky Devils as Visitor
- Bosko in Dutch as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Notorious But Nice as Constance Martin
- Bosko the Speed King as Honey (voice)
- Bosko in Person as Honey
- Walls of Gold as Joan Street
1932
- The Penguin Pool Murder as Telephone Operator
- Beyond the Rockies as Betty Allen
- Is My Face Red? as Newlywed Bride on Leviathon (uncredited)
- Bosko at the Beach as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- The Savage Girl as The Girl
- Hell's Highway as Mary Ellen
- Secrets of the French Police as K-31
- Bosko the Lumberjack as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Bosko and Honey as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Bosko's Dizzy Date as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Bosko the Drawback as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Battling Bosko as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Ride Him, Bosko as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Bosko's Store as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Bosko's Dog Race as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Bosko at the Zoo as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Bosko's Party as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
1931
- The Public Defender as Telephone Operator
- Laugh and Get Rich as Miss Jones - at Dance (uncredited)
- Are These Our Children? as Mary
- Big Man from the North as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Red-Headed Baby as Red-Headed Baby
- Bosko's Soda Fountain as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Bosko's Holiday as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Yodeling Yokels as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Everything’s Rosie as Lowe Party Guest by Punch Bowl
- Fanny Foley Herself as Carmen
- Dumb Patrol as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
1930
- Hold Anything as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
- Sinkin' in the Bathtub as Honey (voice) (uncredited)