Catherine Hessling
Born: June 22, 1900
Died: September 28, 1979
in Moronvilliers, Marne, France
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.