Rochelle Hudson
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.
Acting
Movie
Rebel Without a Cause
as Judy's Mother
1955
Movie
Strait-Jacket
as Emily Cutler
1964
Movie
She Done Him Wrong
as Sally
1933
Movie
Imitation of Life
as Jessie Pullman, Age 18
1934
Movie
Les Misérables
as Cosette
1935
Movie
Wild Boys of the Road
as Grace
1933
Movie
The Night Walker
as Hilda
1964
Movie
Curly Top
as Mary Blair
1935
Movie
Judge Priest
as Virginia Maydew
1934
Movie
Sinkin' in the Bathtub
as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
1930
Movie
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
as Helen Spalding
1967
TV
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Movie
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
as Victoria 'Vicki' Mason
1938
Movie
Hold Anything
as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
1930
Movie
The Penguin Pool Murder
as Telephone Operator
1932
TV
Branded
1965
Movie
Hell's Highway
as Mary Ellen
1932
Movie
Island of Doomed Men
as Lorraine Danel
1940
Movie
Battling Bosko
as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
1932
Movie
Big Man from the North
as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Movie
Meet Boston Blackie
as Cecelia Bradley
1941
Movie
Yodeling Yokels
as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Movie
Doctor Bull
as Virginia (Muller)/Banning
1933
Movie
Ride Him, Bosko
as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
1932