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Rochelle Hudson
Rochelle Hudson
	Rochelle Hudson in the 1930s
Born	Rachael Elizabeth Hudson; March 6, 1916; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died	January 17, 1972 (aged 55); Palm Desert, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1930–1967
Spouses	; Harold Thompson (m. 1939; div. 1947) ; Dick Irving Hyland (m. 1948; div. 1950) ; Charles K. Brust; (m. 1956, divorced) ; Robert L. Mindell (m. 1963; div. 1971)

Rochelle Hudson (born Rachael Elizabeth Hudson;^[3] March 6, 1916 – January 17, 1972) was an American film actress from the 1930s through the 1960s.^[1] Hudson was a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1931.

Early years

Hudson was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the daughter of Ollie Lee Hudson and Lenora Mae Hudson.^[1] While in Oklahoma, she studied dancing, drama, piano, and voice. Hudson began her acting career as a teenager, and completed her high school education at a high school on the Fox studios lot.^[3]

Career

Hudson signed a contract with RKO Pictures on November 22, 1930, when she was 14 years old.^[4]

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). In 1939 Rochelle Hudson was working on a movie titled Convicted Woman for Columbia Pictures that was released in 1940. Another player in the movie was an actress named June Lang. During production the two struck up conversation in a friendly manner because both had worked on Shirley Temple movies, inspiring a sort of special "esprit de corps" between them. Like Hudson's career would soon be, Lang's film career would be interrupted as well, albeit for totally different reasons. Hudson took way too much time away from her acting career with her husband for reasons explained in the next paragraph. Lang got mixed up with and married a suspected heavyweight mob figure said to be a film producer named Johnny Roselli which, as a mob figure, was viewed way to unfavorable by the studios as well. Neither Hudson's nor Lang's careers really got back on track after the war. For more about the collaboration on their movie Convicted Women.

Because of the marked slowdown to an almost complete halt in Hudson's film career in the years just prior to the war and into its early years after having gone gangbusters for the whole decade before, people have long thought she had fallen into disfavor with the Hollywood powers that be or that her popularity had just waned to such a point she was simply just being passed over. However, on what some consider to be rather flimsy evidence, it has been reported, and what will be substantiated further down --- with only flimsy evidence found elsewhere notwithstanding --- that she had in fact been working as a spy during that period for the Naval Intelligence Service. She and her husband, posing as a civilian, were doing espionage work primarily in Mexico and together they posed as a vacationing couple to detect if there was any German or Japanese activity there.

She played Sally Glynn, the fallen ingenue to whom Mae West imparts the immortal wisdom "When women go wrong, men go right after them!" 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 sitcom That's My Boy,^[5] based on a 1951 Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin film of the same name.

Personal life

Hudson was married four times. All the unions were childless. Her first marriage was to Harold Thompson, in 1939. He was the head of the Storyline Department at Disney Studios.

After their divorce in 1947 (although the trade publication Billboard reported that they divorced on September 4, 1945)^[6], she married a second time the following year, to Los Angeles Times sportswriter Dick Irving Hyland. The marriage lasted two years before the couple divorced. Hudson married her third husband, Charles K. Brust, in Jackson, Missouri on September 28, 1956.^[7]

Little is known of the marriage other than they were divorced by June 1962 (he remarried). Hudson's final marriage was to Robert Mindell, a hotel executive. The two remained together for eight years before they divorced in 1971.

Hudson actually was born in 1916, but the studio reportedly made her two years older for her to play a wider variety of roles, including romantic roles. In That's My Boy, she was cast as the mother of Gil Stratton, who was only six years her junior.

Death

In 1972, Hudson was found dead in her home at the Palm Desert Country Club. A business associate with whom she had been working in real estate discovered her body sprawled on the bathroom floor. She was 55 years old.^[2] Hudson died of a heart attack brought on by a liver ailment.^[8]

Filmography

Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930 short) as Honey (uncredited voice)
Laugh and Get Rich (1931) as Miss Jones - at Dance (uncredited)
Everything's Rosie (1931) as Lowe Party Guest by Punch Bowl (uncredited)
Fanny Foley Herself (1931) as Carmen
Are These Our Children? (1931) as Mary
Girl Crazy (1932) as San Luz Señorita (uncredited)
Is My Face Red? (1932) as Newlywed Bride on Leviathon (uncredited)
Beyond the Rockies (1932) as Betty Allen
Hell's Highway (1932) as Mary Ellen
Secrets of the French Police (1932) as K-31
The Savage Girl (1932) as The Girl
The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) as Telephone Operator
The Past of Mary Holmes (1933) as Betty
She Done Him Wrong (1933) as Sally
Lucky Devils (1933) as Visitor
Scarlet River (1933) as Rochelle Hudson (uncredited)
Love Is Dangerous (1933) as Gwendolyn
Notorious But Nice (1933) as Constance Martin
Doctor Bull (1933) as Virginia (Muller) / Banning
Wild Boys of the Road (1933) as Grace
Walls of Gold (1933) as Joan Street
Mr. Skitch (1933) as Emily Skitch
Harold Teen (1934) as Lillian 'Lillums' Lovewell
Such Women Are Dangerous (1934) as Vernie Little
Bachelor Bait (1934) as Cynthia Douglas
Judge Priest (1934) as Virginia Maydew
Imitation of Life (1934) as Jessie Pullman
The Mighty Barnum (1934) as Ellen
I've Been Around (1935) as Drue Waring
Life Begins at 40 (1935) as Adele Anderson
Les Misérables (1935) as Cosette
Curly Top (1935) as Mary Blair
Way Down East (1935) as Anna Moore
Show Them No Mercy! (1935) as Loretta Martin
The Music Goes 'Round (1936) as Susanna Courtney
Everybody's Old Man (1936) as Cynthia Sampson
The Country Beyond (1936) as Jean Alison
Poppy (1936, with W.C. Fields) as Poppy
Reunion (1936) as Mary MacKenzie
Woman-Wise (1937) as Alice Fuller
That I May Live (1937) as Irene Howard
Born Reckless (1937) as Sybil Roberts
She Had to Eat (1937) as Ann Garrison
Rascals (1938) as Margaret Adams
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938) as Victoria Mason
Storm Over Bengal (1938) as Joan Lattimore
Pride of the Navy (1939) as Gloria Tyler
Pirates of the Skies (1939) as Barbara Whitney
Missing Daughters (1939) as Kay Roberts
Smuggled Cargo (1939) as Marian Franklin
Konga, the Wild Stallion (1939) as Judith Hadley
A Woman Is the Judge (1939) as Justine West
Convicted Woman (1940) as Betty Andrews
Men Without Souls (1940) as Suzan Leonard
Island of Doomed Men (1940) as Lorraine Danel
Babies for Sale (1940) as Ruth Williams
Girls Under 21 (1940) as Frances White Ryan
Meet Boston Blackie (1941) as Cecelia Bradley
The Stork Pays Off (1941) as Irene Perry
The Officer and the Lady (1941) as Helen Regan
Rubber Racketeers (1942) as Nikki
Queen of Broadway (1942) as Sherry Baker
Bush Pilot (1947) as Hilary Ward
Devil's Cargo (1948) as Margo Delgado
Sky Liner (1949) as Amy Winthrop
Roots in the Soil (1949)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) as Judy's mother
Strait-Jacket (1964) as Emily Cutler
The Night Walker (1964) as Hilda
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors (1967) as Helen Spalding (final film role)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Hudson, Rochelle (1916–1972)", Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Gale. 2007.
^ ^a ^b "Former Screen Star Rochelle Hudson Dies". Arizona Daily Star. Tucson, Arizona. Associated Press. January 19, 1972. p. 5 – via newspapers.com. Walter Price, a real estate business associate, found the body Monday alter being summoned by Miss Hudson's widowed mother, Mae Hudson, who got no response from her daughter by telephone or at the door. A friend, Evelyn Young, said Miss Hudson recently had been ill with a cold and laryngitis.
^ ^a ^b Houston, Noel (October 9, 1934). "Film Stardom Beckons to Rochelle Hudson, Oklahoma City Girl, Who Was 'On Her Toes' When Contract Arrived". The Oklahoma News. Oklahoma, Oklahoma City. p. 3. Retrieved October 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Films Give Career To Oklahoma Girl". The Akron Beacon Journal. Ohio, Akron. November 22, 1930. p. 10. Retrieved July 24, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 1067. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
^ "Divorces". Billboard. September 15, 1945. p. 70. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
^ "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991". FamilySearch. The Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
^ Beaver County Times: "Death is investigated". January 19, 1972.

Sources

Forty Years of Screen Credits, 1929-1969. Two volumes. Compiled by John T. Weaver. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1970. Entries begin on page 57.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, Cengage Learning. 1980–2009.

External links

[HighBeam-1] "Hudson, Rochelle (1916–1972)", Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Gale. 2007.

[arizona-2] "Former Screen Star Rochelle Hudson Dies". Arizona Daily Star. Tucson, Arizona. Associated Press. January 19, 1972. p. 5 – via newspapers.com. Walter Price, a real estate business associate, found the body Monday alter being summoned by Miss Hudson's widowed mother, Mae Hudson, who got no response from her daughter by telephone or at the door. A friend, Evelyn Young, said Miss Hudson recently had been ill with a cold and laryngitis.

[on-3] Houston, Noel (October 9, 1934). "Film Stardom Beckons to Rochelle Hudson, Oklahoma City Girl, Who Was 'On Her Toes' When Contract Arrived". The Oklahoma News. Oklahoma, Oklahoma City. p. 3. Retrieved October 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.

[4] "Films Give Career To Oklahoma Girl". The Akron Beacon Journal. Ohio, Akron. November 22, 1930. p. 10. Retrieved July 24, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

[etvs-5] Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 1067. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.

[6] "Divorces". Billboard. September 15, 1945. p. 70. Retrieved 23 April 2017.

[7] "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991". FamilySearch. The Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Retrieved March 6, 2020.

[8] Beaver County Times: "Death is investigated". January 19, 1972.

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