
Acting
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.

Crime and Punishment
as Elisabeth

Coralie and Company

High and Low
as Mademoiselle Paula

Little Red Riding Hood
as Le petit chaperon rouge

The Pursuit of Happiness
as Catherine

The Little Match Girl
as Karen

The Sad Sack
as L'institutrice

Sea Fever

Backbiters
as Catherine Ferrand

Charleston Parade
as Parisian savage