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Birthday: Jun 22, 1900
Place of Birth: Moronvilliers, Marne, France

Catherine Hessling

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
Movie Cast Year
The Little Match Girl Karen 1928
Nana Nana 1926
Coralie and Company 1934
La P’tite Lili 1927
Charleston Parade Parisian savage 1927
Whirlpool of Fate Virginia Rosaert 1925
Little Red Riding Hood Le petit chaperon rouge 1930
The Pursuit of Happiness Catherine 1930
Backbiters Catherine Ferrand 1927
Yvette Yvette 1927
The Sad Sack L'institutrice 1928
High and Low Mademoiselle Paula 1933
Sea Fever 1927
Crime and Punishment Elisabeth 1935
Series Cast Year
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma Self (archive footage) 1978
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