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Rochelle Hudson

Acting Born Mar 6, 1916 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

Do the Right Thing

1989
Film

Rebel Without a Cause

as Judy's Mother
Film

Halloween: Resurrection

as Polly Grover

Full filmography

  • 77 Sunset Strip (1958)
  • Branded (1965)
  • Racket Squad (1951)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955) as Judy's Mother
  • Curly Top (1935) as Mary Blair
  • Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951) as Polly Grover
  • I'm the Law (1953)
  • The Night Walker (1964) as Hilda
  • Les Misérables (1935) as Cosette
  • Strait-Jacket (1964) as Emily Cutler
  • Imitation of Life (1934) as Jessie Pullman, Age 18
  • The Past of Mary Holmes (1933) as Betty
  • Wild Boys of the Road (1933) as Grace
  • Harold Teen (1934) as Lillian 'Lillums' Lovewell
  • Mr. Skitch (1933) as Emily Skitch
  • Storm Over Bengal (1938) as Joan Lattimore
  • Lucky Devils (1933) as Visitor
  • Bachelor Bait (1934) as Cynthia Douglas
  • Scarlet River (1933) as Herself (uncredited)
  • Way Down East (1935) as Anna Moore
  • Convicted Woman (1940) as Betty Andrews
  • Are These Our Children? (1931) as Mary
  • Doctor Bull (1933) as Virginia (Muller)/Banning
  • Born Reckless (1937) as Sybil Roberts