Rochelle Hudson
Actor
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
Strait-Jacket
as Emily Cutler 1964
She Done Him Wrong
as Sally 1933
Imitation of Life
as Jessie Pullman, Age 18 1934
Les Misérables
as Cosette 1935
Wild Boys of the Road
as Grace 1933
The Night Walker
as Hilda 1964
Curly Top
as Mary Blair 1935
Judge Priest
as Virginia Maydew 1934
Sinkin' in the Bathtub
as Honey (voice) (uncredited) 1930
Gallery of Horror
as Helen Spalding 1967
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
as Victoria 'Vicki' Mason 1938
Hold Anything
as Honey (voice) (uncredited) 1930
Hell's Highway
as Mary Ellen 1932
Island of Doomed Men
as Lorraine Danel 1940
The Penguin Pool Murder
as Telephone Operator 1932
Big Man from the North
as Honey (voice) (uncredited) 1931