Denise Grey
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denise Grey, real name Édouardine Verthuy, was a French actress. Édouardine Grey was born Châtillon, in the Aosta Valley in north-west Italy, close to the French border. The city was almost totally French-speaking at the time. She was naturalized French on July 13, 1922. She started working in the film industry in 1915 in the silent film En famille, an adaptation of the novel by Hector Malot, before dedicating herself to theatre. She went back to working in films, now talkies, in the 1930s. She came to fame in the 1940s with films such as Monsieur Hector (1940), Boléro (1942) or Devil in the Flesh (1947). Old age did not put an end to her career. For example, in 1972, she starred in a French television series called Les Rois maudits. Thanks to the film La Boum, in which she plays "Poupette", the great-grandmother of Sophie Marceau, she gained recognition from a new audience growing up in the 1980s. She was a member of the Comédie-Française between 1944 and 1946 and between 1957 and 1958. She had a daughter: Suzanne Grey, also an actress, who was born on 28 June 1917 and died on 13 December 2005. In 1986, she sang Devenir vieux (Becoming Old). She died in 1996, a few months before reaching the age of 100. She rests next to her husband in the cemetery of Arradon (Morbihan).
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Movies (40)
La soupière
1993
A Fine Romance
as Madame Legris
1991
The Seasons of Pleasure
as Emmanuelle van Bert
1988
Le Gaffeur
as la mère de Gabriel
1985
Le jardin d'Eponine
as The mother
1984
Le Voleur de feuilles
as Isabelle Debecker
1984
La vie est trop courte
as Mme Lambert
1984
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
as Madame Toussaint mother
1983
The Party 2
as Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother
1982
The Party
as Poupette, Vic's great grandmother
1980
La Vénus de Milo
as Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
1973
Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
1971
Hello-Goodbye
as Concierge
1970
Le Mari, la femme et la mort
as Julie, la voisine
1970
La Maison de campagne
as Baroness de Bocquigny
1969
Constance
as Mme Culver
1969
Le minotaure
as Rirette
1969
J'y suis, j'y reste
as La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
1966
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
as Mrs. Dumont-Freville
1965
How to Make a French Dish
as Mrs. Boudard mother
1964
Love and the Frenchwoman
as La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
1960
The Crab Basket
as The impresario
1960
The Woman's Confidant
as La Comtesse
1959
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
as Marguerite Martin
1958
Mimi Pinson
as The grandmother
1958
Le Tombeur !!!
as Natacha Olivaro
1958
Carve Her Name with Pride
as Mrs. Bushell
1958
In Six Easy Lessons
as Jeanne Sandret
1957
Sylviane de mes nuits
as Mrs. Anita de Santos
1957
Police Judiciaire
as Madame Jambert
1957
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
as Marguerite Martin
1957
La Peau de l'ours
as Mrs. Legrand, the mother-in-law
1957
The Crazy Hostel
as Grandmother
1957
A Night in the Balearics
as Marguerite Vargas
1957
Mitsou
as Estelle
1956
La Rue des bouches peintes
as Winifred
1955
Villa Sans-Souci
1955
Fantaisie d'un jour
as Mrs. de Cédillon
1955
The Seducer
as La mamma di Jacqueline
1954
The Sheep Has Five Legs
as Mme Durand-Perrin
1954
TV Shows (10)
Stars 90
as Self
1990
Sacrée Soirée
as Self
1987
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
Les Dames de la côte
as Adélaïde Decourt
1979
Midi Première
as Self
1975
Un curé de choc
as Patricia Pougue
1974
The Accursed Kings
as Madame Marie de Hongrie
1972
Samedi soir
as Self
1971
The Flashing Blade
as The Countess of Blainville
1967
At Theatre Tonight
as La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
1966