Catherine Hessling
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
The Little Match Girl
1928
Nana
1926
Coralie and Company
1934
La P’tite Lili
1927
Charleston Parade
1927
The Whirlpool of Fate
1925
Little Red Riding Hood
1930
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930
Backbiters
1927
Yvette
1927
The Sad Sack
1928
Sea Fever
1927
High and Low
1933
Crime and Punishment
1935
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978