Catherine Hessling

Catherine Hessling

1900-06-22 – 1979-09-28 (age 79) Moronvilliers, Marne, France
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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.

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Known For

Nana
Nana

1926

as Nana

The Little Match Girl
High and Low
High and Low

1933

as Mademoiselle Paula

Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood

1930

as Le petit chaperon rouge

La P’tite Lili
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Pursuit of Happiness

1930

as Catherine

The Sad Sack
The Sad Sack

1928

as L'institutrice

Backbiters
Backbiters

1927

as Catherine Ferrand

Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment

1935

as Elisabeth

Sea Fever
Whirlpool of Fate
Whirlpool of Fate

1925

as Virginia Rosaert

Charleston Parade
Charleston Parade

1927

as Parisian savage

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Yvette

1927

as Yvette