Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1916-03-06
Day of Death
1972-01-17
Place of Birth
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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.
Filmography (93)
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
1967
The Night Walker
1964
Strait-Jacket
1964
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
Sky Liner
1949
Devil's Cargo
1948
Bush Pilot
1947
Queen of Broadway
1942
Rubber Racketeers
1942
The Officer and the Lady
1941
The Stork Pays Off
1941
Meet Boston Blackie
1941
Girls Under 21
1940
Babies for Sale
1940
