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.
The Little Match Girl
(Karen)
Nana
(Nana)
Coralie and Company
La P’tite Lili
Charleston Parade
(Parisian savage)
Whirlpool of Fate
(Virginia Rosaert)
Little Red Riding Hood
(Le petit chaperon rouge)
The Pursuit of Happiness
(Catherine)
Backbiters
(Catherine Ferrand)
Yvette
(Yvette)
The Sad Sack
(L'institutrice)
Sea Fever
High and Low
(Mademoiselle Paula)
Crime and Punishment
(Elisabeth)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
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