Rochelle Hudson

Born: 1916-03-06

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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Rebel Without a Cause

as Judy's Mother
Released: 1955-10-27

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate,...

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Les Misérables

as Cosette
Released: 1935-04-20

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...

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Strait-Jacket

as Emily Cutler
Released: 1964-01-19

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged...

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Imitation of Life

as Jessie Pullman, Age 18
Released: 1934-11-23

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter....

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She Done Him Wrong

as Sally
Released: 1933-02-09

New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of...

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Wild Boys of the Road

as Grace
Released: 1933-10-07

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when...

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Is My Face Red?

as Newlywed Bride on Leviathon (uncredited)
Released: 1932-06-17

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and...

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Curly Top

as Mary Blair
Released: 1935-07-26

Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister...

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Judge Priest

as Virginia Maydew
Released: 1934-09-15

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the...

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Convicted Woman

as Betty Andrews
Released: 1940-01-31

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

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The Night Walker

as Hilda
Released: 1964-12-30

A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who...

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Hell's Highway

as Mary Ellen
Released: 1932-09-23

A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.

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Sky Liner

as Amy Winthrop
Released: 1949-07-28

Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies,...

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Island of Doomed Men

as Lorraine Danel
Released: 1940-05-20

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a...

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Sinkin' in the Bathtub

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1930-04-19

The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of...

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Scarlet River

as Herself (uncredited)
Released: 1933-03-10

Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy...

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Bachelor Bait

as Cynthia Douglas
Released: 1934-07-27

After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.

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Penguin Pool Murder

as Telephone Operator
Released: 1932-12-09

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous...

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Bosko the Lumberjack

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-09-03

Bosko and his friends are cutting down trees in a forest. He battles a burly woodsman named...

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Notorious But Nice

as Constance Martin
Released: 1933-08-04

A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the...

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Laugh and Get Rich

as Miss Jones - at Dance (uncredited)
Released: 1931-03-27

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that...

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How Do I Know It's Sunday

as Various
Released: 1934-06-08

Inside a general store, the products all come to life and happily sing the title song. An Eskimo...

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Way Down East

as Anna Moore
Released: 1935-10-25

A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that...

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Bosko's Holiday

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1931-05-20

Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly.

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Walls of Gold

as Joan Street
Released: 1933-10-21

A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.

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Devil's Cargo

as Margo Delgado
Released: 1948-04-01

John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series.

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Rubber Racketeers

as Nikki
Released: 1942-06-26

Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal...

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Bosko's Picture Show

as Honey
Released: 1933-08-26

Bosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from...

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Gallery of Horror

as Helen Spalding
Released: 1967-01-01

John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In...

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Poppy

as Poppy
Released: 1936-06-17

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the...

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Bosko in Dutch

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1933-01-14

Set on a frozen pond in Holland, various animals attempt to skate on the slippery ice.

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Show Them No Mercy!

as Loretta Martin
Released: 1935-12-06

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly...

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Babies for Sale

as Ruth Williams
Released: 1940-06-14

A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a...

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Harold Teen

as Lillian 'Lillums' Lovewell
Released: 1934-04-07

A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in...

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Storm Over Bengal

as Joan Lattimore
Released: 1938-11-14

This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed...

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Born Reckless

as Sybil Roberts
Released: 1937-06-25

Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection...

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Doctor Bull

as Virginia (Muller)/Banning
Released: 1933-09-22

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers...

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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance

as Victoria 'Vicki' Mason
Released: 1938-06-11

In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a...

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Big Man from the North

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1931-01-31

Bosko is a Mountie in the cold, snowy north. His sergeant demands that he get his man: a...

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The Mighty Barnum

as Ellen
Released: 1934-12-23

20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace...

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I've Been Around

as Drue Waring
Released: 1935-03-05

Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.

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Everything’s Rosie

as Lowe Party Guest by Punch Bowl
Released: 1931-05-22

A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her...

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She Had to Eat

as Ann Garrison
Released: 1937-07-02

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric...

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Girls Under 21

as Frances White Ryan
Released: 1940-11-15

Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends...

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Men Without Souls

as Suzan Leonard
Released: 1940-05-20

A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of...

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Bosko the Speed King

as Honey (voice)
Released: 1933-03-21

Bosko enters a road race.

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Hold Anything

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1930-10-01

Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight,...

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That I May Live

as uncredited
Released: 1937-09-13

Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three...

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Mr. Skitch

as Emily Skitch
Released: 1933-12-22

After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes...

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The Music Goes 'Round

as Susanna Courtney
Released: 1936-02-27

Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence...

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Meet Boston Blackie

as Cecelia Bradley
Released: 1941-02-20

When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a...

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Pirates of the Skies

as uncredited
Released: 1939-01-01

Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon...

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Reunion

as Mary MacKenzie
Released: 1936-11-20

Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought...

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Missing Daughters

as Kay Roberts
Released: 1939-05-22

The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy...

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Life Begins at Forty

as Adele Anderson
Released: 1935-03-22

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return...

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Konga, the Wild Stallion

as Judith Hadley
Released: 1939-08-30

A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the...

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The Savage Girl

as The Girl
Released: 1932-12-04

An intoxicated millionaire commissions an expedition to Africa. A white jungle goddess falls in...

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Bosko at the Zoo

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-01-09

Bosko and Honey go to the zoo. Honey is frightened by the lion, but Bosko is the one who ends up...

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Are These Our Children?

as Mary
Released: 1931-11-13

A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying...

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The Past of Mary Holmes

as Betty
Released: 1933-01-20

Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a...

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Bush Pilot

as Hilary Ward
Released: 1947-06-07

Two pilots, who happen to be half-brothers, compete for the same girl as well as the same air...

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Battling Bosko

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-02-06

Bosko is a brave little boxer who battles the champion, Gas House Harry. The enormous brute...

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Rascals

as Margaret Adams
Released: 1938-05-20

A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a...

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A Woman is the Judge

as Justine West
Released: 1939-10-03

Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown...

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Smuggled Cargo

as Marian Franklin
Released: 1939-08-21

When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost...

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Yodeling Yokels

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1931-06-01

Bosko and Honey yodel happily in the Alps until a series of disasters end with Honey rushing...

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Lucky Devils

as Visitor
Released: 1933-02-03

Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.

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Such Women Are Dangerous

as Vernie Little
Released: 1934-06-08

An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his...

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Bosko's Store

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-08-13

Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business.

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The Public Defender

as Telephone Operator
Released: 1931-08-01

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who...

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Bosko in Person

as Honey
Released: 1933-04-10

Bosko and Honey perform a wacky stage act that includes doing imitations of Maurice Chevalier,...

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Bosko and Honey

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-19

An unreleased cartoon that eventually went on to have most of its animation recycled by Bosko's...

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Secrets of the French Police

as Undercover Agent K-31 (bit)
Released: 1932-12-02

A burglar is recruited by the French Surete to help find his kidnapped girlfriend, who has been...

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Dumb Patrol

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1931-05-19

During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only...

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Beyond the Rockies

as Betty Allen
Released: 1932-07-08

A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.

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The Country Beyond

as Jean Alison
Released: 1936-04-24

A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.

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Woman-Wise

as Alice Fuller
Released: 1937-01-22

A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.

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Ride Him, Bosko

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-09-17

Ride Him, Bosko! is a western-flavored cartoon with lots of shooting gags involving body...

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The Officer and the Lady

as Helen Regan
Released: 1941-10-12

A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man...

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Fanny Foley Herself

as Carmen
Released: 1931-10-09

A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two...

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Bosko's Dizzy Date

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-19

Honey is trying to teach violin to a difficult pupil who hates music. She call Bosko over. The...

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Bosko's Parlor Pranks

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1934-11-24

Bosko keeps Wilbur occupied with tales of his past exploits while Honey steps out on an errand.

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Bosko's Dog Race

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-06-25

Bosko enters his dog, Bruno, in a dog race.

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Bosko's Party

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-04-02

Bosko whistles "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo" as he walks down the sidewalk in the pouring rain....

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Queen of Broadway

as Sherry Baker
Released: 1942-11-24

There are no queens and very little Broadway (except for an opening establishing shot) in Queen...

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Bosko's Soda Fountain

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1931-11-14

Bosko is a soda jerk, who gives poor service to a mouse and to his former schoolteacher. Later,...

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Bosko the Drawback

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-10-22

Bosko is the star player in a wacky game of professional football.

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The Stork Pays Off

as Irene Perry
Released: 1941-10-05

Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and...

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Bosko at the Beach

as Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1932-07-23

Bosko, Honey, and Bruno spend a day at the beach.

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77 Sunset Strip

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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Branded

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-01-24

Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by...

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Racket Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-06-07

Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock,...

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I'm the Law

as uncredited
First aired: 1953-02-13

I'm the Law is the title of a 30-minute syndicated American television police drama series which...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Polly Grover
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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