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