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Catherine Hessling

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Catherine Hessling

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

Jun 22, 1900 (126 years old)

Place of Birth

Moronvilliers, 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.

Known For

Acting
1978Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinémaSelf (archive footage)
1935Crime and PunishmentElisabeth
1934Coralie and Company
1933High and LowMademoiselle Paula
1930Little Red Riding HoodLe petit chaperon rouge
1930The Pursuit of HappinessCatherine
1928The Little Match GirlKaren
1928The Sad SackL'institutrice
1927La P’tite Lili
1927Charleston ParadeParisian savage
1927BackbitersCatherine Ferrand
1927YvetteYvette
1927Sea Fever
1926NanaNana
1925The Whirlpool of FateVirginia Rosaert