Rochelle Hudson
Acting • Born 1916-03-06 – Died 1972-01-17
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
98 credits
Rebel Without a Cause
Movie • 1955
Judy's Mother
Bosko and Honey
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Judge Priest
Movie • 1934
Virginia Maydew
I've Been Around
Movie • 1935
Drue Waring
Bosko the Speed King
Movie • 1933
Honey (voice)
Poppy
Movie • 1936
Poppy
Strait-Jacket
Movie • 1964
Emily Cutler
The Night Walker
Movie • 1964
Hilda
Curly Top
Movie • 1935
Mary Blair
The Officer and the Lady
Movie • 1941
Helen Regan
She Done Him Wrong
Movie • 1933
Sally
Les Misérables
Movie • 1935
Cosette
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Movie • 1938
Victoria 'Vicki' Mason
Imitation of Life
Movie • 1934
Jessie Pullman, Age 18
Devil's Cargo
Movie • 1948
Margo Delgado
Meet Boston Blackie
Movie • 1941
Cecelia Bradley
Wild Boys of the Road
Movie • 1933
Grace
Girls Under 21
Movie • 1940
Frances White Ryan
Doctor Bull
Movie • 1933
Virginia (Muller)/Banning
Harold Teen
Movie • 1934
Lillian 'Lillums' Lovewell
Hell's Highway
Movie • 1932
Mary Ellen
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
Movie • 1967
Helen Spalding
Bachelor Bait
Movie • 1934
Cynthia Douglas
Island of Doomed Men
Movie • 1940
Lorraine Danel
The Mighty Barnum
Movie • 1934
Ellen
Big Man from the North
Movie • 1931
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Ride Him, Bosko
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko in Person
Movie • 1933
Honey
Convicted Woman
Movie • 1940
Betty Andrews
Men Without Souls
Movie • 1940
Suzan Leonard
Secrets of the French Police
Movie • 1932
K-31
That I May Live
Movie • 1937
Show Them No Mercy!
Movie • 1935
Loretta Martin
Babies for Sale
Movie • 1940
Ruth Williams
Notorious But Nice
Movie • 1933
Constance Martin
Life Begins at Forty
Movie • 1935
Adele Anderson
Way Down East
Movie • 1935
Anna Moore
Are These Our Children?
Movie • 1931
Mary
Born Reckless
Movie • 1937
Sybil Roberts
Sky Liner
Movie • 1949
Amy Winthrop
Mr. Skitch
Movie • 1933
Emily Skitch
Hold Anything
Movie • 1930
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Lucky Devils
Movie • 1933
Visitor
Bosko the Lumberjack
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Scarlet River
Movie • 1933
Herself (uncredited)
Walls of Gold
Movie • 1933
Joan Street
The Country Beyond
Movie • 1936
Jean Alison
Beyond the Rockies
Movie • 1932
Betty Allen
Reunion
Movie • 1936
Mary MacKenzie
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Movie • 1939
Judith Hadley
The Savage Girl
Movie • 1932
The Girl
Bush Pilot
Movie • 1947
Hilary Ward
Pirates of the Skies
Movie • 1939
How Do I Know It's Sunday
Movie • 1934
Various
The Public Defender
Movie • 1931
Telephone Operator
Sinkin' in the Bathtub
Movie • 1930
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Everything’s Rosie
Movie • 1931
Lowe Party Guest by Punch Bowl
Fanny Foley Herself
Movie • 1931
Carmen
Smuggled Cargo
Movie • 1939
Marian Franklin
Bosko's Soda Fountain
Movie • 1931
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko's Holiday
Movie • 1931
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Dumb Patrol
Movie • 1931
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Yodeling Yokels
Movie • 1931
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Battling Bosko
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko at the Zoo
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko at the Beach
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko's Party
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko's Dog Race
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko's Store
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko in Dutch
Movie • 1933
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko's Dizzy Date
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko the Drawback
Movie • 1932
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko's Parlor Pranks
Movie • 1934
Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko's Easter Eggs
Movie • 1937
Honey (voice)
Pride of the Navy
Movie • 1939
Gloria Tyler
Rascals
Movie • 1938
Margaret Adams
The Stork Pays Off
Movie • 1941
Irene Perry
Missing Daughters
Movie • 1939
Kay Roberts
Rubber Racketeers
Movie • 1942
Nikki
Such Women Are Dangerous
Movie • 1934
Vernie Little
Queen of Broadway
Movie • 1942
Sherry Baker
Storm Over Bengal
Movie • 1938
Joan Lattimore
Is My Face Red?
Movie • 1932
Newlywed Bride on Leviathon (uncredited)
The Past of Mary Holmes
Movie • 1933
Betty
A Woman is the Judge
Movie • 1939
Justine West
Circus Daze
Movie • 1937
Honey (voice)
The Music Goes 'Round
Movie • 1936
Susanna Courtney
The Penguin Pool Murder
Movie • 1932
Telephone Operator
She Had to Eat
Movie • 1937
Ann Garrison
Woman-Wise
Movie • 1937
Alice Fuller
Laugh and Get Rich
Movie • 1931
Miss Jones - at Dance (uncredited)
Everybody's Old Man
Movie • 1936
Cynthia Sampson
Red-Headed Baby
Movie • 1931
Red-Headed Baby
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Polly Grover
Branded
TV • 1965
Racket Squad
TV • 1951
I'm the Law
TV • 1953