Rochelle Hudson
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 Appearances)
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
Branded
The Night Walker
Strait-Jacket
77 Sunset Strip
Rebel Without a Cause
I'm the Law
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Racket Squad
Sky Liner
Devil's Cargo
Bush Pilot
Queen of Broadway
Rubber Racketeers
The Officer and the Lady
The Stork Pays Off
Meet Boston Blackie
Girls Under 21
Babies for Sale
Island of Doomed Men
Men Without Souls
Convicted Woman
A Woman is the Judge
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Smuggled Cargo
Missing Daughters
Pride of the Navy
Pirates of the Skies
Storm Over Bengal
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Rascals
That I May Live
She Had to Eat
Born Reckless
Bosko's Easter Eggs
Woman-Wise
Circus Daze
Reunion
Poppy
The Country Beyond
Everybody's Old Man
The Music Goes 'Round
Show Them No Mercy!
Way Down East
Curly Top
Les Misérables
Life Begins at Forty
I've Been Around
The Mighty Barnum
Bosko's Parlor Pranks
Imitation of Life
Judge Priest
Bachelor Bait
How Do I Know It's Sunday
Such Women Are Dangerous
Harold Teen
Mr. Skitch
Walls of Gold
Wild Boys of the Road
Doctor Bull
Notorious But Nice
Bosko in Person
Bosko the Speed King
Scarlet River
She Done Him Wrong
Lucky Devils
The Past of Mary Holmes
Bosko in Dutch
The Penguin Pool Murder
The Savage Girl
Secrets of the French Police
Bosko and Honey
Bosko's Dizzy Date
Bosko the Drawback
Hell's Highway
Ride Him, Bosko
Bosko the Lumberjack
Bosko's Store
Bosko at the Beach
Beyond the Rockies
Bosko's Dog Race
Is My Face Red?
Bosko's Party
Battling Bosko
Bosko at the Zoo
Red-Headed Baby
Bosko's Soda Fountain
Are These Our Children?
Fanny Foley Herself
The Public Defender
Yodeling Yokels
Everything’s Rosie
Bosko's Holiday
Dumb Patrol
Laugh and Get Rich
Big Man from the North
Hold Anything
Sinkin' in the Bathtub