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

Sacrée soirée

Champs-Elysées

Midi Première

At Theatre Tonight

At Theatre Tonight

Stars 90

Un curé de choc

The Party

All Movies (88)

• La soupière1993
• A Fine Romance1991 · as Madame Legris
• The Seasons of Pleasure1988 · as Emmanuelle van Bert
• Le Gaffeur1985 · as la mère de Gabriel
• Le jardin d'Eponine1984 · as The mother
• Le Voleur de feuilles1984 · as Isabelle Debecker
• La vie est trop courte1984 · as Mme Lambert
• En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger1983 · as Madame Toussaint mother
• The Party 21982 · as Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother
• The Party1980 · as Mrs Valadier aka 'Poupette', Vic's great grandmother
• La Vénus de Milo1973 · as Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
• Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?1971
• Hello-Goodbye1970 · as Concierge
• Le Mari, la femme et la mort1970 · as Julie, la voisine
• La Maison de campagne1969 · as Baroness de Bocquigny
• Constance1969 · as Mme Culver
• Le minotaure1969 · as Rirette
• J'y suis, j'y reste1966 · as La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
• Pas de caviar pour tante Olga1965 · as Mrs. Dumont-Freville
• How to Make a French Dish1964 · as Mrs. Boudard mother
• Love and the Frenchwoman1960 · as La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
• The Crab Basket1960 · as The impresario
• The Woman's Confidant1959 · as La Comtesse
• A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik1958 · as Marguerite Martin
• Mimi Pinson1958 · as The grandmother
• Le Tombeur !!!1958 · as Natacha Olivaro
• Carve Her Name with Pride1958 · as Mrs. Bushell
• In Six Easy Lessons1957 · as Jeanne Sandret
• Sylviane de mes nuits1957 · as Mrs. Anita de Santos
• Police Judiciaire1957 · as Madame Jambert
• On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels1957 · as Marguerite Martin
• La Peau de l'ours1957 · as Mrs. Legrand, the mother-in-law
• The Crazy Hostel1957 · as Grandmother
• A Night in the Balearics1957 · as Marguerite Vargas
• Mitsou1956 · as Estelle
• La Rue des bouches peintes1955 · as Winifred
• Villa Sans-Souci1955
• Fantaisie d'un jour1955 · as Mrs. de Cédillon
• The Seducer1954 · as La mamma di Jacqueline
• The Sheep Has Five Legs1954 · as Mme Durand-Perrin
• Service Entrance1954 · as Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline
• Castles in Spain1954 · as (uncredited)
• April Fools' Day1954 · as Clémentine Prévost
• Rasputin1954 · as La princesse Dikvona
• The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne1954 · as Mme Grossac
• Inside a Girls' Dormitory1953 · as Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice
• The Father of the Girl1953 · as Mme Isabelle Marinier, mère
• Julietta1953 · as Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
• The Tour of the Grand Dukes1953 · as The baroness
• Hello… I love you1952 · as Mrs. Dupuis
• Les Petites Cardinal1951 · as Mrs. Cardinal
• Tomorrow We Get Divorced1951 · as Mrs. Tourelle
• Tête blonde1950 · as Isabelle Truche
• My Friend Sainfoin1950 · as Eugénie's mother
• Round of Hours1950 · as Madame Méry-Mirecourt
• Not Any Weekend for Our Love1950 · as Gabrielle
• Rome Express1950 · as Margot
• Bonheur en location1949 · as Gilde
• Une femme par jour1949 · as La Duchesse de Kerentrec
• Et dix de der1948 · as Betty
• Square of Knaves1947 · as Mme de la Bastide
• Coïncidences1947 · as Madame Bardolas
• Devil in the Flesh1947 · as Madame Grangier
• Six Hours to Lose1947 · as Madame de Witt
• We Request a Household1946 · as Sabine Robinet
• The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic1946 · as Miss Baxter
• Strange Fate1946 · as Madame d'Evremond
• The Ideal Couple1946 · as Antoinette
• Madame et son flirt1946 · as The pseudo-cousin Léa
• The Queer Assignment1945 · as Mrs. Brockseller
• Majestic Hotel Cellars1945 · as Madame Van Bell
• L'aventure est au coin de la rue1944 · as Madame Laurat-Dossin
• Adieu Léonard1943 · as Bernardine Leonard
• Retour de flamme1943 · as Madame de Nogrelles
• Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur1943 · as Élisabeth Castille
• Des jeunes filles dans la nuit1943 · as Andrée's mother
• The Honorable Catherine1943 · as Madame d'Ambroisie
• The Blue Veil1942 · as Madame Volnar-Bussel
• Threesome Romance1942 · as Loys Erland
• Boléro1942 · as Anne-Marie Houillier
• Montmartre on the Seine1941 · as Moussette
• Monsieur Hector1940 · as Maroussia de Dragomir
• Trois artilleurs à l'opéra1939 · as Paulette
• Serge Panine1939 · as Lady Harton
• Trois artilleurs au pensionnat1937 · as Hortense, second teacher
• La Dame de Vittel1937 · as Mrs. Bleu
• Jeunes filles à marier1935
• Nemrod et compagnie1916

All TV Shows (11)

• Stars 901990 · as Self
• Sacrée soirée1987 · as Self
• Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self
• Les Dames de la côte1979 · as Adélaïde Decourt
• Midi Première1975 · as Self
• Un curé de choc1974 · as Patricia Pougue
• The Accursed Kings1972 · as Madame Marie de Hongrie
• Samedi soir1971 · as Self
• The Flashing Blade1967 · as The Countess of Blainville
• At Theatre Tonight1966 · as La comtesse Apolline de Mont-Vermeil
• At Theatre Tonight1966 · as Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat