Catherine Hessling
Also Known As: Andrée Madeleine Heuschling Hessling, Катрин Эсслинг
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moronvilliers, Marne, France
Adult: No
Birthday: June 22, 1900
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 28, 1979
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The Little Match Girl
Overview: An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-06-07
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Nana
Overview: Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-06-25
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Coralie and Company
Overview: A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-07
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La P’tite Lili
Overview: Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie, with music for the audio version of 1930 by Darius Milhaud. Only one original copy of this tragic story and impressionistic. The film tells the story of Lili ( Frau Catherine Hessling ), a 16 year old orphan who has lost her whole family but has retained her purity and innocence. Alas, a terrible doom awaits this optimistic child: in the slums of Paris she will meet a man who will lead her into prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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Charleston Parade
Overview: Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-03-19
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Whirlpool of Fate
Overview: Jean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young girl who manages to turn her tragic family life into one of joy and happiness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-03-20
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Little Red Riding Hood
Overview: This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she once again comes up against a wolf. This time around the big bad wolf has become a lecherous tramp who keeps stalking the girl trying to wolf her down ... in his own way of course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-05-14
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The Pursuit of Happiness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-05-26
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Backbiters
Overview: About the conflict between social classes through the life of the unhappy Catherine Ferrand, an orphan girl, who is a victim of the jealousy of women and the greed of men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-11-09
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Yvette
Overview: Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-12-30
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The Sad Sack
Overview: The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-07-18
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High and Low
Overview: The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid hired by the wife of a baron,whom both the athlete and a baron flirt with,and a deadbeat tenant who fakes his suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-08
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Sea Fever
Overview: The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-11-18
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as an early forerunner of poetic realism.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-17
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