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