Catherine Hessling
Birthday
1900/06/22
Day of death
1979/09/28 (79 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Moronvilliers, Marne, France
Also know as
Andrée Madeleine Heuschling Hessling, Катрин Эсслинг
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.
Acting
(1928) The Little Match Girl
as Karen
(1926) Nana
as Nana
(1934) Coralie and Company
as ---
(1927) La P’tite Lili
as ---
(1927) Charleston Parade
as Parisian savage
(1925) Whirlpool of Fate
as Virginia Rosaert
(1930) Little Red Riding Hood
as Le petit chaperon rouge
(1930) The Pursuit of Happiness
as Catherine
(1927) Backbiters
as Catherine Ferrand
(1927) Yvette
as Yvette
(1928) The Sad Sack
as L'institutrice
(1927) Sea Fever
as ---
(1933) High and Low
as Mademoiselle Paula
(1935) Crime and Punishment
as Elisabeth
(1978) Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)