Person

Catherine Hessling

Acting · 1900–1979 · Moronvilliers, 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.

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  Crime and Punishment

  Elisabeth

• Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

  Self (archive footage)

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  Nana

  Nana

• Yvette

  Yvette

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  Backbiters

  Catherine Ferrand

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  La P’tite Lili

  Lili

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  Little Red Riding Hood

  Le petit chaperon rouge

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  Whirlpool of Fate

  Virginia Rosaert

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  The Sad Sack

  L'institutrice

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  High and Low

  Mademoiselle Paula

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