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Le Petit chaperon rouge
FRANCE · 1929

Le Petit chaperon rouge

Jean Renoir
fairy tale adaptation silent cinema French cinema childhood innocence danger and survival
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Catherine Hessling (born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling; 22 June 1900 – 28 September 1979) was a French 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.

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