Denise Grey

Actor · 1896–1996 · Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy

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).

Acted in 92

1990s

1993
La soupière
Movie
1991
A Fine Romance
Madame Legris

1980s

1988
The Seasons of Pleasure
Emmanuelle van Bert
1985
Le Gaffeur
la mère de Gabriel
1984
Le jardin d'Eponine
The mother
Le Voleur de feuilles
Isabelle Debecker
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
63
1980
The Party
Mrs Valadier aka 'Poupette', Vic's great grandmother
67

1970s

1979
Les Dames de la côte
Adélaïde Decourt · 5 episodes
1974
Un curé de choc
Patricia Pougue · 1 episode
1973
La Vénus de Milo
Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
1972
The Accursed Kings
Madame Marie de Hongrie · 1 episode
1971
Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
Movie
1970
Hello-Goodbye
Concierge
Le Mari, la Femme et la Mort
Julie, la voisine

1960s

1969
Les aventures de Babar
La vieille dame · 45 episodes
La Maison de campagne
Baroness de Bocquigny
Constance
Mme Culver
Le minotaure
Rirette
Tout pour le mieux
Mme Barbetti
1967
The Flashing Blade
The Countess of Blainville · 4 episodes
1966
J'y suis, j'y reste
La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
At Theatre Tonight
La comtesse Apolline de Mont-Vermeil, Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat · 1 episode
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")
58
The Crab Basket
The impresario