About:
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.

• Known For
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  The Little Match Girl
  as
  Karen
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  Nana
  as
  Nana
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  Coralie and Company
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  La P’tite Lili
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  Charleston Parade
  as
  Parisian savage