Actor
Catherine Hessling
Catherine Hessling is credited on 6 movies, best known by TMDB votes for The Little Match Girl, Nana and Whirlpool of Fate.
Born June 22, 1900 in Moronvilliers, Marne, France; died September 28, 1979.
Filmography · 6 titles
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About 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.
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