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.

Cast

Rebel Without a Cause

(Judy's Mother)

Bosko and Honey

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Judge Priest

(Virginia Maydew)

I've Been Around

(Drue Waring)

Bosko the Speed King

(Honey (voice))

Poppy

(Poppy)

Strait-Jacket

(Emily Cutler)

The Night Walker

(Hilda)

Curly Top

(Mary Blair)

The Officer and the Lady

(Helen Regan)

She Done Him Wrong

(Sally)

Les Misérables

(Cosette)

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance

(Victoria 'Vicki' Mason)

Imitation of Life

(Jessie Pullman, Age 18)

Devil's Cargo

(Margo Delgado)

Meet Boston Blackie

(Cecelia Bradley)

Wild Boys of the Road

(Grace)

Girls Under 21

(Frances White Ryan)

Doctor Bull

(Virginia (Muller)/Banning)

Harold Teen

(Lillian 'Lillums' Lovewell)

Hell's Highway

(Mary Ellen)

Gallery of Horror

(Helen Spalding)

Bachelor Bait

(Cynthia Douglas)

Island of Doomed Men

(Lorraine Danel)

The Mighty Barnum

(Ellen)

Big Man from the North

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Ride Him, Bosko

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko's Picture Show

(Honey)

Bosko in Person

(Honey)

Convicted Woman

(Betty Andrews)

Men Without Souls

(Suzan Leonard)

Secrets of the French Police

(Undercover Agent K-31 (bit))

That I May Live

Show Them No Mercy!

(Loretta Martin)

Babies for Sale

(Ruth Williams)

Notorious But Nice

(Constance Martin)

Life Begins at Forty

(Adele Anderson)

Way Down East

(Anna Moore)

Are These Our Children?

(Mary)

Born Reckless

(Sybil Roberts)

Sky Liner

(Amy Winthrop)

Mr. Skitch

(Emily Skitch)

Hold Anything

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Lucky Devils

(Visitor)

Bosko the Lumberjack

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Scarlet River

(Herself (uncredited))

Walls of Gold

(Joan Street)

The Country Beyond

(Jean Alison)

Beyond the Rockies

(Betty Allen)

Reunion

(Mary MacKenzie)

Konga, the Wild Stallion

(Judith Hadley)

The Savage Girl

(The Girl)

Bush Pilot

(Hilary Ward)

Pirates of the Skies

How Do I Know It's Sunday

(Various)

The Public Defender

(Telephone Operator)

Sinkin' in the Bathtub

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Everything’s Rosie

(Lowe Party Guest by Punch Bowl)

Fanny Foley Herself

(Carmen)

Smuggled Cargo

(Marian Franklin)

Bosko's Soda Fountain

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko's Holiday

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Dumb Patrol

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Yodeling Yokels

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Battling Bosko

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko at the Zoo

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko at the Beach

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko's Party

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko's Dog Race

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko's Store

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko in Dutch

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko's Dizzy Date

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko the Drawback

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko's Parlor Pranks

(Honey (voice) (uncredited))

Bosko's Easter Eggs

(Honey)

Pride of the Navy

(Gloria Tyler)

Rascals

(Margaret Adams)

The Stork Pays Off

(Irene Perry)

Missing Daughters

(Kay Roberts)

Rubber Racketeers

(Nikki)

Such Women Are Dangerous

(Vernie Little)

Queen of Broadway

(Sherry Baker)

Storm Over Bengal

(Joan Lattimore)

Is My Face Red?

(Newlywed Bride on Leviathon (uncredited))

The Past of Mary Holmes

(Betty)

A Woman is the Judge

(Justine West)

Circus Daze

(Honey (voice))

The Music Goes 'Round

(Susanna Courtney)

Penguin Pool Murder

(Telephone Operator)

She Had to Eat

(Ann Garrison)

Woman-Wise

(Alice Fuller)

Laugh and Get Rich

(Miss Jones - at Dance (uncredited))

77 Sunset Strip

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

(Polly Grover)

Branded

Racket Squad

I'm the Law