Actor
Catherine Hessling
Born June 22, 1900 in Moronvilliers, Marne, FranceDied September 28, 197914 films
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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First watchThe Little Match Girl19286.9as KarenAn impoverished girl tries to sell matches on New Year's Eve. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook.View filmFilmography
14 films as actor- 1935Crime and PunishmentElisabeth
- 1934Coralie and Company
- 1933High and LowMademoiselle Paula
- 1930The Pursuit of HappinessCatherine
- 1930Little Red Riding HoodLe petit chaperon rouge
- 1928The Sad SackL'institutrice
- 1928The Little Match GirlKaren
- 1927YvetteYvette
- 1927Sea Fever
- 1927BackbitersCatherine Ferrand
- 1927La P’tite LiliLili
- 1927Charleston ParadeParisian savage
- 1926NanaNana
- 1925Whirlpool of FateVirginia Rosaert