Catherine Hessling
Actor
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.
Filmography
Nana
as Nana 1926
Charleston Parade
as Parisian savage 1927
Whirlpool of Fate
as Virginia Rosaert 1925
La P’tite Lili
1927
The Sad Sack
as L'institutrice 1928
Backbiters
as Catherine Ferrand 1927
High and Low
as Mademoiselle Paula 1933
Sea Fever
1927
Crime and Punishment
as Elisabeth 1935
Coralie and Company
1934
Little Red Riding Hood
as Le petit chaperon rouge 1930
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Catherine 1930