Catherine Hessling
Biography
Catherine Hessling, born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling, was a French stage and screen actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profession and withdrawing from public life in the mid-1930s.
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Acting History
1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma as Self (archive footage)
1935Crime and Punishment as Elisabeth
1934Coralie and Company
1933High and Low as Mademoiselle Paula
1930The Pursuit of Happiness as Catherine
1930Little Red Riding Hood as Le petit chaperon rouge
1928The Sad Sack as L'institutrice
1928The Little Match Girl as Karen
1927Yvette as Yvette
1927Sea Fever
1927Backbiters as Catherine Ferrand
1927La P’tite Lili
1927Charleston Parade as Parisian savage
1926Nana as Nana
1925Whirlpool of Fate as Virginia Rosaert