![]() ![]() In French director Gilles Bourdos’ lush period film, “Renoir,” opening Friday, Heuschling is far more than a footnote. After their divorce in 1930, she soon retired from acting and drifted into obscurity. One of the most influential directors of the 20th century, noted for such masterpieces as 1937’s “Grand Illusion,” 1939’s “Rules of the Game” and 1945’s “The Southerner,” the French filmmaker was widely embraced by the young Turks of France’s New Wave, including Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.īut there was little notice seven months later when Renoir’s first wife, Andree Heuschling, who acted in his silent films as Catherine Hessling, died in France at the age of 79. ![]() The world of cinema mourned when Jean Renoir died in Beverly Hills in 1979 at the age of 84. ![]()
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