Catherine Hessling

Catherine Hessling (79)

1900-06-22 - 1979-09-28 | 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.

On Movies

  • Crime and Punishment
  • Coralie and Company
  • High and Low
  • Little Red Riding Hood
  • The Sad Sack
  • The Little Match Girl
  • Yvette
  • Sea Fever
  • Backbiters
  • La P’tite Lili
  • Charleston Parade
  • Nana
  • Whirlpool of Fate

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