Catherine Hessling
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
- Acting
- Born
- 1900-06-22 · Moronvilliers, Marne, France
- Died
- 1979-09-28
Known for
- The Little Match Girl (1928) — Karen
- Nana (1926) — Nana
- Whirlpool of Fate (1925) — Virginia Rosaert
- Charleston Parade (1927) — Parisian savage
- La P’tite Lili (1927) — Lili
- The Sad Sack (1928) — L'institutrice
- Backbiters (1927) — Catherine Ferrand
- High and Low (1933) — Mademoiselle Paula
- Sea Fever (1927)
- Crime and Punishment (1935) — Elisabeth
- Coralie and Company (1934)
- Little Red Riding Hood (1930) — Le petit chaperon rouge
- The Pursuit of Happiness (1930) — Catherine
- Yvette (1927) — Yvette
- Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978) — Self (archive footage)