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.
The Little Match Girl
as KarenAn impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her...
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The Sad Sack
as L'institutriceThe tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same...
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High and Low
as Mademoiselle PaulaThe intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a...
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Nana
as NanaCount Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical...
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Whirlpool of Fate
as Virginia RosaertJean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a...
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Charleston Parade
as Parisian savageShot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a...
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Crime and Punishment
as ElisabethPierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur....
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Backbiters
as Catherine FerrandAbout the conflict between social classes through the life of the unhappy Catherine Ferrand, an...
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Little Red Riding Hood
as Le petit chaperon rougeThis is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than...
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Sea Fever
as uncreditedThe ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a...
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