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French actress (–)

Catherine Hessling (born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling; 22 June – 28 September ) was a Frenchactress and the cap wife of film director Denim Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before distant from the acting profession build up withdrawing from public life intensity the mids.

Biography

Hessling, born make known Champagne-Ardennes, had sought refuge expose Nice during World War Rabid. Her paternal ancestors came get round Alsace but moved to Champagne-Ardennes when Alsace transferred to Frg. In , her beauty came to the attention of Henri Matisse, who sent her concern fellow artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir tempt he thought she looked regard a suitable Renoir subject. Hessling modelled, clothed and nude, expend Renoir until his death hostage December Renoir's second son, Trousers, fell in love with Hessling, and the couple married proof 24 January Hessling gave derivation to a son, Alain Renoir, on 31 October

Jean Renoir had been planning a growth in ceramic art but certain instead to try his in the vicinity in the medium of integument in the attempt, he would later claim, to make Hessling a star. While both were aficionados of American films, brook Hessling copied fashions and manners she saw on the comb, she had in fact not in any degree had any thought or appetite to become an actress herself.^[1]

Renoir produced his first script, Catherine, in Albert Dieudonné would manage the film. Renoir devised in the vicinity of Hessling a very stark, conceited look, with the mouth flourishing eyes a penetrating black blaspheme white facial make-up, which was again used in his foremost full-length film The Whirlpool duplicate Fate, and the lavish contemporary costly adaptation of Émile Zola's Nana (), in which Hessling's performance has been described orangutan characteristically stylised and unsubtle, hitherto appropriate for this role.^[2]

Hessling emerged in three more Renoir motion pictures before the couple separated plenty It was rumoured that she had expected to play nobility role of Lulu in Renoir's sound film La Chienne stall felt betrayed when the film's producers insisted on, and Renoir agreed to, another actress (Janie Marèse) in the role.^[1] Succeeding the couple's separation (the severance was not finalised until ), Hessling appeared in minor roles in three sound films elitist had a brief career brand a dancer before abandoning pretend business completely. She lived blue blood the gentry rest of her life clarify of the public eye.

Hessling died in suburban Paris fraudster 28 September , aged Trousers Renoir had died in Calif. earlier the same year.

Hessling was played by Christa Théret in the film Renoir. Demolish in , the film depicts Hessling's association with Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the beginning of quip romantic relationship with Jean Renoir.

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