Catherine Hessling

Catherine Hessling Trailers

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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.

Most Popular Catherine Hessling Trailers

Total trailers found: 14

Sea Fever Trailer (1927)

18 November 1927

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.

High and Low Trailer (1933)

08 December 1933

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.

The Sad Sack Trailer (1928)

18 July 1928

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

Yvette Trailer (1927)

30 December 1927

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.

La P’tite Lili Trailer (1927)

01 October 1927

La P’tite Lili is a silent short drama depicting the fate of a young orphaned girl in the working-class districts of Paris.

Coralie and Company Trailer (1934)

07 June 1934

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

Nana Trailer (1926)

25 June 1926

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

Charleston Parade Trailer (1927)

19 March 1927

Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

Backbiters Trailer (1927)

09 November 1927

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.

The Little Match Girl Trailer (1928)

07 June 1928

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on New Year's Eve. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook.

The Pursuit of Happiness Trailer (1930)

26 May 1930

Whirlpool of Fate Trailer (1925)

20 March 1925

Orphan Virginia is left destitute following her father's death and her uncle's alcoholism; she finds refuge with bohemians but is forced to flee, eventually finding romance and a life-altering experience that triggers surreal dreams.

Little Red Riding Hood Trailer (1930)

14 May 1930

This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever.

Crime and Punishment Trailer (1935)

17 May 1935

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.