Catherine Hessling
Acting
June 22, 1900 — September 28, 1979Moronvilliers, 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.
Known for
1935Crime and Punishment
Elisabeth
1934Coralie and Company
1933High and Low
Mademoiselle Paula
1930Little Red Riding Hood
Le petit chaperon rouge
1930The Pursuit of Happiness
Catherine
1928The Little Match Girl
Karen
1928The Sad Sack
L'institutrice
1927La P’tite Lili
1927Charleston Parade
Parisian savage
1927Backbiters
Catherine Ferrand
1927Sea Fever
1926Nana
Nana
1925Whirlpool of Fate
Virginia Rosaert