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).
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Movies (89)
La soupière
1993
A Fine Romance
1991 · Madame Legris
The Seasons of Pleasure
1988 · Emmanuelle van Bert
Le Gaffeur
1985 · la mère de Gabriel
Le jardin d'Eponine
1984 · The mother
Le Voleur de feuilles
1984 · Isabelle Debecker
La vie est trop courte
1984 · Mme Lambert
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
1983 · Madame Toussaint mother
The Party 2
1982 · Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother
The Party
1980 · Mrs Valadier aka 'Poupette', Vic's great grandmother
La Vénus de Milo
1973 · Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
1971
Hello-Goodbye
1970 · Concierge
Le Mari, la Femme et la Mort
1970 · Julie, la voisine
La Maison de campagne
1969 · Baroness de Bocquigny
Constance
1969 · Mme Culver
Le minotaure
1969 · Rirette
Tout pour le mieux
1969 · Mme Barbetti
J'y suis, j'y reste
1966 · La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
1965 · Mrs. Dumont-Freville
How to Make a French Dish
1964 · Mrs. Boudard mother
Love and the Frenchwoman
1960 · La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
The Crab Basket
1960 · The impresario
The Woman's Confidant
1959 · La Comtesse
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
1958 · Marguerite Martin
Mimi Pinson
1958 · The grandmother
Le Tombeur !!!
1958 · Natacha Olivaro
Carve Her Name with Pride
1958 · Mrs. Bushell
In Six Easy Lessons
1957 · Jeanne Sandret
Sylviane de mes nuits
1957 · Mrs. Anita de Santos
Police Judiciaire
1957 · Madame Jambert
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
1957 · Marguerite Martin
La Peau de l'ours
1957 · Mrs. Legrand, the mother-in-law
The Crazy Hostel
1957 · Grandmother
A Night in the Balearics
1957 · Marguerite Vargas
Mitsou
1956 · Estelle
La Rue des bouches peintes
1955 · Winifred
Villa Sans-Souci
1955
Fantaisie d'un jour
1955 · Mrs. de Cédillon
The Seducer
1954 · La mamma di Jacqueline
The Sheep Has Five Legs
1954 · Mme Durand-Perrin
Service Entrance
1954 · Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline
Castles in Spain
1954 · (uncredited)
April Fools' Day
1954 · Clémentine Prévost
Rasputin
1954 · La princesse Dikvona
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
1954 · Mme Grossac
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
1953 · Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice
The Father of the Girl
1953 · Mme Isabelle Marinier, mère
Julietta
1953 · Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
1953 · The baroness
Hello… I love you
1952 · Mrs. Dupuis
Les Petites Cardinal
1951 · Mrs. Cardinal
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
1951 · Mrs. Tourelle
Tête blonde
1950 · Isabelle Truche
My Friend Sainfoin
1950 · Eugénie's mother
Round of Hours
1950 · Madame Méry-Mirecourt
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
1950 · Gabrielle
Rome Express
1950 · Margot
Bonheur en location
1949 · Gilde
Une femme par jour
1949 · La Duchesse de Kerentrec
Et dix de der
1948 · Betty
Square of Knaves
1947 · Mme de la Bastide
Coïncidences
1947 · Madame Bardolas
Devil in the Flesh
1947 · Madame Grangier
Six Hours to Lose
1947 · Madame de Witt
We Request a Household
1946 · Sabine Robinet
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
1946 · Miss Baxter
Strange Fate
1946 · Madame d'Evremond
The Ideal Couple
1946 · Antoinette
Madame et son flirt
1946 · The pseudo-cousin Léa
The Queer Assignment
1945 · Mrs. Brockseller
Majestic Hotel Cellars
1945 · Madame Van Bell
L'aventure est au coin de la rue
1944 · Madame Laurat-Dossin
Adieu Léonard
1943 · Bernardine Leonard
Retour de flamme
1943 · Madame de Nogrelles
Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur
1943 · Élisabeth Castille
Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
1943 · Andrée's mother
The Honorable Catherine
1943 · Madame d'Ambroisie
The Blue Veil
1942 · Madame Volnar-Bussel
Threesome Romance
1942 · Loys Erland
Boléro
1942 · Anne-Marie Houillier
Montmartre on the Seine
1941 · Moussette
Monsieur Hector
1940 · Maroussia de Dragomir
Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
1939 · Paulette
Serge Panine
1939 · Lady Harton
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
1937 · Hortense, second teacher
La Dame de Vittel
1937 · Mrs. Bleu
Jeunes filles à marier
1935
Nemrod et compagnie
1916
TV shows (11)
Stars 90
1990 · Self
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Les Dames de la côte
1979 · Adélaïde Decourt
Midi Première
1975 · Self
Un curé de choc
1974 · Patricia Pougue
The Accursed Kings
1972 · Madame Marie de Hongrie
Samedi soir
1971 · Self
Les aventures de Babar
1969 · La vieille dame
The Flashing Blade
1967 · The Countess of Blainville
At Theatre Tonight
1966 · La comtesse Apolline de Mont-Vermeil, Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat