Rochelle Hudson
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Rochelle Hudson (March 6, 1914 (some sources indicate 1916) - January 17, 1972) was an American film actress from the 1930s through the 1960s.
The Oklahoma City-born actress may be best remembered today for playing Cosette in Les Misérables and Natalie Wood's mother in Rebel Without a Cause (1955).
She was wed four times:
- a) Harold Thompson - head of the Storyline Department at Disney Studios. According to IMDb she assisted Thompson, who was doing espionage work in Mexico as a civilian during World War II. They posed as a vacationing couple to various parts of Mexico, to detect if there was any German activity in these areas. One of their more successful vacations uncovered a supply of high test aviation gas hidden by German agents in Baja.
- b) Dick Irving Hyland - Los Angeles Times sportswriter
- c) Charles Burst - businessman
- d) Robert Mindell - hotel executive.
All her marriages ended in divorce; she had no children.
She died in her 50s of pneumonia brought on by a liver ailment.
- [1] IMDb
