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Catherine Hessling
Born 1900-06-22Moronvilliers, 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.
Screen work
Movies & roles
Crime and PunishmentElisabethCoralie and CompanyRoleHigh and LowMademoiselle PaulaThe Pursuit of HappinessCatherineLittle Red Riding HoodLe petit chaperon rougeThe Sad SackL'institutriceThe Little Match GirlKarenYvetteYvetteSea FeverRoleBackbitersCatherine FerrandLa P’tite LiliLiliCharleston ParadeParisian savageNanaNanaWhirlpool of FateVirginia Rosaert