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Rochelle Hudson
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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 ac…
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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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1967
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
Movie Helen Spalding
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1965
Branded
TV show
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1964
The Night Walker
Movie Hilda
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1964
Strait-Jacket
Movie Emily Cutler
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1958
77 Sunset Strip
TV show
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1955
Rebel Without a Cause
Movie Judy's Mother
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1953
I'm the Law
TV show
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1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV show Polly Grover
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1951
Racket Squad
TV show
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1949
Sky Liner
Movie Amy Winthrop
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1948
Devil's Cargo
Movie Margo Delgado
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1947
Bush Pilot
Movie Hilary Ward
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1942
Queen of Broadway
Movie Sherry Baker
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1942
Rubber Racketeers
Movie Nikki
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1941
The Officer and the Lady
Movie Helen Regan
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1941
The Stork Pays Off
Movie Irene Perry
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1941
Meet Boston Blackie
Movie Cecelia Bradley
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1940
Girls Under 21
Movie Frances White Ryan
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1940
Babies for Sale
Movie Ruth Williams
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1940
Island of Doomed Men
Movie Lorraine Danel
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1940
Men Without Souls
Movie Suzan Leonard
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1940
Convicted Woman
Movie Betty Andrews
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1939
A Woman is the Judge
Movie Justine West
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1939
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Movie Judith Hadley
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1939
Smuggled Cargo
Movie Marian Franklin
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1939
Missing Daughters
Movie Kay Roberts
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1939
Pride of the Navy
Movie Gloria Tyler
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1939
Pirates of the Skies
Movie
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1938
Storm Over Bengal
Movie Joan Lattimore
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1938
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Movie Victoria 'Vicki' Mason
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1938
Rascals
Movie Margaret Adams
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1937
That I May Live
Movie
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1937
She Had to Eat
Movie Ann Garrison
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1937
Born Reckless
Movie Sybil Roberts
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1937
Bosko's Easter Eggs
Movie Honey (voice)
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1937
Woman-Wise
Movie Alice Fuller
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1937
Circus Daze
Movie Honey (voice)
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1936
Reunion
Movie Mary MacKenzie
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1936
Poppy
Movie Poppy
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1936
The Country Beyond
Movie Jean Alison
