Catherine Hessling
Acting·June 22, 1900·† September 28, 1979 — 79 years old·Moronvilliers, Marne, France
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.
Known For
Filmography · 15
1978Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinémaTVSelf (archive footage)1935Crime and PunishmentElisabeth1934Coralie and Company1933High and LowMademoiselle Paula1930The Pursuit of HappinessCatherine1930Little Red Riding HoodLe petit chaperon rouge1928The Sad SackL'institutrice1928The Little Match GirlKaren1927YvetteYvette1927Sea Fever1927BackbitersCatherine Ferrand1927La P’tite LiliLili1927Charleston ParadeParisian savage1926NanaNana1925Whirlpool of FateVirginia Rosaert