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.

  • Popularity : 1.847
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1900-06-22
  • Place of Birth : Moronvilliers, Marne, France
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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...

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  • 1926
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    Nana

    Nana

    6.7 1926 HD

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

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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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  • 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,...

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    Charleston Parade

    Charleston Parade

    5.8 1927 HD

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

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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...

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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...

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  • 1930
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    The Pursuit of Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness

    1 1930 HD

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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  • 1978
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    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    1 1978 HD

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

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