Catherine Hessling

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.

  • Title: Catherine Hessling
  • Popularity: 3.373
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1900-06-22
  • Place of Birth: Moronvilliers, Marne, France
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  • Also Known As: Andrée Madeleine Heuschling Hessling, Катрин Эсслинг
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Catherine Hessling Movies

  • 1928
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    The Little Match Girl
    The Little Match Girl

    6.9 1928 HD

    An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Catherine Hessling

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  • 1926
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    Nana
    Nana

    6.6 1926 HD

    Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Catherine Hessling

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  • 1927
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    La P’tite Lili
    La P’tite Lili

    4.846 1927 HD

    Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Catherine Hessling

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  • 1927
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    Charleston Parade
    Charleston Parade

    5.783 1927 HD

    Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Catherine Hessling

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  • 1925
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    Whirlpool of Fate
    Whirlpool of Fate

    6.5 1925 HD

    Jean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young girl who manages to turn her tragic family life...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Catherine Hessling

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  • 1930
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    The Pursuit of Happiness
    The Pursuit of Happiness

    1 1930 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Catherine Hessling

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  • 1930
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    Little Red Riding Hood
    Little Red Riding Hood

    1 1930 HD

    This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Catherine Hessling

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  • 1927
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    Backbiters
    Backbiters

    6.6 1927 HD

    About the conflict between social classes through the life of the unhappy Catherine Ferrand, an orphan girl, who is a victim of the jealousy of women...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Catherine Hessling

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  • 1927
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    Yvette
    Yvette

    1 1927 HD

    Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Pauline Carton

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  • 1927
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    Sea Fever
    Sea Fever

    6.2 1927 HD

    The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Pierre Batcheff

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  • 1928
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    The Sad Sack
    The Sad Sack

    6.4 1928 HD

    The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Georges Pomiès

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  • 1935
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    Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment

    7 1935 HD

    Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Harry Baur

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  • 1933
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    High and Low
    High and Low

    5 1933 HD

    The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jean Gabin

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  • 1934
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    Coralie and Company
    Coralie and Company

    1 1934 HD

    A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

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    Cast: Françoise Rosay

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  • 1979
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    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    1 1979 HD

    Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Jean Rochefort

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