
Catherine Hessling
Acting • Born 1900-06-22 – Died 1979-09-28
Acting0Moronvilliers, Marne, France
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.
Filmography
15 credits
The Little Match Girl
Movie • 1928
Karen

Nana
Movie • 1926
Nana

Coralie and Company
Movie • 1934

La P’tite Lili
Movie • 1927

Charleston Parade
Movie • 1927
Parisian savage

The Whirlpool of Fate
Movie • 1925
Virginia Rosaert

Little Red Riding Hood
Movie • 1930
Le petit chaperon rouge

The Pursuit of Happiness
Movie • 1930
Catherine

Backbiters
Movie • 1927
Catherine Ferrand

Yvette
Movie • 1927
Yvette

The Sad Sack
Movie • 1928
L'institutrice

High and Low
Movie • 1933
Mademoiselle Paula

Sea Fever
Movie • 1927

Crime and Punishment
Movie • 1935
Elisabeth

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV • 1978
Self (archive footage)