Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 17, 1896
Place of Birth:
Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
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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).
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | La soupière | |
| 1991 | A Fine Romance | Madame Legris |
| 1988 | The Seasons of Pleasure | Emmanuelle van Bert |
| 1985 | Le Gaffeur | la mère de Gabriel |
| 1984 | Le voleur de feuilles | Isabelle Debecker |
| 1984 | Le jardin d'Eponine | The mother |
| 1984 | La vie est trop courte | Mme Lambert |
| 1983 | En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger | Madame Toussaint mother |
| 1982 | The Party 2 | Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother |
| 1980 | The Party | Poupette, Vic's great grandmother |
| 1973 | La Vénus de Milo | Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat |
| 1971 | Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ? | |
| 1970 | Le Mari, la femme et la mort | Julie, la voisine |
| 1970 | Hello-Goodbye | Concierge |
| 1969 | La Maison de campagne | Baroness de Bocquigny |
| 1969 | Constance | Mme Culver |
| 1969 | Le minotaure | Rirette |
| 1966 | J'y suis, j'y reste | La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil |
| 1965 | Pas de caviar pour tante Olga | Mrs. Dumont-Freville |
| 1964 | How to Make a French Dish | Mrs. Boudard mother |
| 1960 | Love and the Frenchwoman | La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce") |
| 1960 | The Crab Basket | The impresario |
| 1959 | The Woman's Confidant | La Comtesse |
| 1958 | Carve Her Name with Pride | Mrs. Bushell |
| 1958 | A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik | Marguerite Martin |
| 1958 | Le Tombeur !!! | Natacha Olivaro |
| 1958 | Police Judiciaire | Madame Jambert |
| 1958 | Mimi Pinson | The grandmother |
| 1957 | On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels | Marguerite Martin |
| 1957 | A Night in the Balearics | Marguerite Vargas |
| 1957 | La peau de l'ours | Mrs. Legrand, the mother-in-law |
| 1957 | The Crazy Hostel | Grandmother |
| 1957 | Sylviane de mes nuits | Mrs. Anita de Santos |
| 1957 | In Six Easy Lessons | Jeanne Sandret |
| 1956 | Mitsou | Estelle |
| 1955 | La rue des bouches peintes | Winifred |
| 1955 | Villa Sans-Souci | |
| 1955 | Fantaisie d'un jour | |
| 1954 | April Fools' Day | Clémentine Prévost |
| 1954 | The Sheep Has Five Legs | Mme Durand-Perrin |
| 1954 | Castles in Spain | (no aceditada) |
| 1954 | Service Entrance | Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline |
| 1954 | The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne | Mme Grossac |
| 1954 | Rasputin | La princesse Dikvona |
| 1954 | The Seducer | La mamma di Jacqueline |
| 1953 | The Tour of the Grand Dukes | The baroness |
| 1953 | The Father of the Girl | Mme Isabelle Marinier, mère |
| 1953 | Inside a Girls' Dormitory | Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice |
| 1953 | Julietta | Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine |
| 1952 | Hello… I love you | Mrs. Dupuis |
| 1951 | Tomorrow We Get Divorced | Mrs. Tourelle |
| 1951 | Les Petites Cardinal | Mrs. Cardinal |
| 1950 | Round of Hours | Madame Méry-Mirecourt |
| 1950 | My Friend Sainfoin | Eugénie's mother |
| 1950 | Tête blonde | Isabelle Truche |
| 1950 | Not Any Weekend for Our Love | Gabrielle |
| 1950 | Rome Express | Margot |
| 1949 | Une femme par jour | La Duchesse de Kerentrec |
| 1949 | Bonheur en location | Gilde |
| 1948 | Et dix de der | |
| 1947 | Coïncidences | Madame Bardolas |
| 1947 | Devil in the Flesh | Madame Grangier |
| 1947 | Square of Knaves | Mme de la Bastide |
| 1947 | Six Hours to Lose | Madame de Witt |
| 1946 | Madame et son flirt | The pseudo-cousin Léa |
| 1946 | Strange Fate | Madame d'Evremond |
| 1946 | The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic | Miss Baxter |
| 1946 | The Ideal Couple | Antoinette |
| 1946 | We Request a Household | Sabine Robinet |
| 1945 | Majestic Hotel Cellars | Madame Van Bell |
| 1945 | The Queer Assignment | Mrs. Brockseller |
| 1944 | L'aventure est au coin de la rue | Madame Laurat-Dossin |
| 1943 | The Honorable Catherine | Madame d'Ambroisie |
| 1943 | Des jeunes filles dans la nuit | Andrée's mother |
| 1943 | Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur | Élisabeth Castille |
| 1943 | Adieu Léonard | Bernardine Leonard |
| 1943 | Retour de flamme | |
| 1942 | Threesome Romance | Loys Erland |
| 1942 | The Blue Veil | Madame Volnar-Bussel |
| 1942 | Boléro | Anne-Marie Houillier |
| 1941 | Montmartre on the Seine | Moussette |
| 1940 | Monsieur Hector | Maroussia de Dragomir |
| 1939 | Serge Panine | Lady Harton |
| 1939 | Trois artilleurs à l'opéra | Paulette |
| 1937 | La Dame de Vittel | Mrs. Bleu |
| 1937 | Trois artilleurs au pensionnat | Hortense, second teacher |
| 1935 | Jeunes filles à marier | |
| 1916 | Nemrod et compagnie |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Stars 90 | Self |
| 1987 | Sacrée soirée | Self |
| 1982 | Champs-Elysées | Self |
| 1979 | Les Dames de la côte | Adélaïde Decourt |
| 1975 | Midi Première | Self |
| 1974 | Un curé de choc | Patricia Pougue |
| 1972 | The Accursed Kings | Madame Marie de Hongrie |
| 1971 | Samedi soir | Self |
| 1967 | The Flashing Blade | The Countess of Blainville |
| 1966 | At Theatre Tonight | La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil |
| 1966 | At Theatre Tonight | Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat |