Catherine Hessling

14Movies

7.0 Best Rating

Biography

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.

Top Rated Movies

★7.0

The Little Match Girl (1928) movie poster

★7.0

The Little Match Girl — An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a shelt

The Little Match Girl

1928•Drama

★6.8

Crime and Punishment (1935) movie poster

★6.8

Crime and Punishment — Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of Germa

Crime and Punishment

1935•Crime

★6.5

★6.5

Nana — Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing t

Nana

1926•Drama

★6.5

★6.5

Whirlpool of Fate — Jean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young girl who manages to

Whirlpool of Fate

1925•Romance

★6.5

★6.5

The Sad Sack — The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.

The Sad Sack

1928•Comedy

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

Year	Movie	Character	Rating	Verdict
1935	Crime and Punishment	Elisabeth	★ 6.8	Hit
1934	Coralie and Company	-	★ 0.0	Flop
1933	High and Low	Mademoiselle Paula	★ 5.0	Flop
1930	The Pursuit of Happiness	Catherine	★ 0.0	Flop
1930	Little Red Riding Hood	Le petit chaperon rouge	★ 0.0	Flop
1928	The Sad Sack	L'institutrice	★ 6.5	Hit
1928	The Little Match Girl	Karen	★ 7.0	Hit
1927	Yvette	Yvette	★ 0.0	Flop
1927	Sea Fever	-	★ 6.2	Average
1927	Backbiters	Catherine Ferrand	★ 6.4	Average
1927	La P’tite Lili	-	★ 4.8	Flop
1927	Charleston Parade	Parisian savage	★ 5.8	Average
1926	Nana	Nana	★ 6.5	Hit
1925	Whirlpool of Fate	Virginia Rosaert	★ 6.5	Hit