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 ...

In Brief: Jean Renoir's debut film seems first and foremost intended to show off the charms and beauty of Renoir's star (and then-wife) Catherine Hessling. It's less a story than just a series of ...

THE tale of the ageing painter and his fledgling filmmaker son is played out in Gilles Bourdos' suitably sun-drenched, stunning as a portrait, picture. Opening on the French Riviera in 1915, Renoir ...

One of the finest, cagiest and laziest painters is André Derain. His Por of Catherine Hessling, in the Chicago Institute, and his landscape. Southern ‘in. the Phillips Memorial Gallery Washington, are ...