Judith Arlen was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

-American

United States

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 film actress.

Born as Laurette Rutherford, she was the elder sister of the better-known actress Ann Rutherford

Ann Rutherford

Ann Rutherford is a Canadian-American actress in film, radio, and television. She has had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict on the big screen of the 1930s and 1940s in the Andy Hardy series, and on The Bob Newhart Show as Newhart's character's...

. Arlen started her acting career in 1930 with an uncredited role in the Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...

 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

WAMPAS Baby Stars

The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States which honored thirteen young women each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. They were selected from 1922 to 1934, and annual...

" (at the time, baby star was common slang for starlet), the last year that the "WAMPAS" titles were awarded. The 1934 film Kiss and Make-Up, which starred Cary Grant

Cary Grant

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 and co-starred fellow 1934 "WAMPAS Baby Star" Lucille Lund

Lucille Lund

Lucille Lund was an American film actress of the 1930s.-Background:Lucille Lund was born in Buckley, Washington to Oluf and Laura Lund, and was of Norwegian descent. She began her theatrical career as a child doing play extracts and readings...

, 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 petered out.

In 1935, her younger sister (Ann)'s career launched. Arlen worked behind the scenes for her younger sister, but never returned to acting.

She resided in Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara, California

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at the time of her death on June 5, 1968, aged 54.