Judith Arlen
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Judith Arlen (March 18th, 1914-June 5th, 1968) was an American film actress of the 1930's.
Arlen was born Laurette Rutherford in Hollywood, California, and was the older sister to better known and more successful actress Ann Rutherford. Arlen started her acting career in 1930 with an uncredited role in the Cecil B. DeMille film Madam Satan. She would have another uncredited role in 1933, but received two credited roles in 1934, and that year she was one of thirteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars", the last year that the "WAMPAS" titles were awarded. The 1934 film Kiss and Make-Up, which starred Cary Grant and co-starred fellow 1934 "WAMPAS Baby Star" Lucille Lund, would be Arlen's next to last film. She had a minor role in Young and Beautiful, in which she played a "WAMPAS Baby Star", after which her acting career promptly ended.
Oddly enough, the following year in 1935, her younger sister Ann's career launched. Their two careers could not have been more opposite. Her sister would go on to star in over seventy films, along with several television appearances, the most memorable of which was her 1938 role in A Christmas Carol in which she played the "Ghost of Christmas Past", and her role as "Scarlett O'Hara's younger sister in Gone With The Wind. Arlen would work behind the scenes for her younger sister, and would never herself return to acting. She resided in Santa Barbara, California at the time of her death on June 5th, 1968.
