Denise Grey
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 17, 1896
- Died
- January 13, 1996
- Birthplace
- Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
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).
Filmography
La soupière 1993
Actor
A Fine Romance 1991
as Madame Legris
The Seasons of Pleasure 1988
as Emmanuelle van Bert
Le Gaffeur 1985
as la mère de Gabriel
Le jardin d'Eponine 1984
as The mother
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 Mrs Valadier aka 'Poupette', Vic's great grandmother
La Vénus de Milo 1973
as Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ? 1971
Actor
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
Tout pour le mieux 1969
as Mme Barbetti
J'y suis, j'y reste 1966
as La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga 1965
as Mrs. Dumont-Freville
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
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
Police Judiciaire 1957
as Madame Jambert
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels 1957
as Marguerite Martin
La Peau de l'ours 1957
as Mrs. Legrand, the mother-in-law
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
Actor
Fantaisie d'un jour 1955
as Mrs. de Cédillon
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 (uncredited)
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 The baroness
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
as Betty
- Square of Knaves
Square of Knaves 1947
as Mme de la Bastide
Coïncidences 1947
as Madame Bardolas
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
as Madame de Nogrelles
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
as Mrs. Bleu
- Jeunes filles à marier
Jeunes filles à marier 1935
Actor
- Nemrod et compagnie
Nemrod et compagnie 1916
Actor
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