Denise Grey
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1896-09-17
Day of Death
1996-01-13 (99 years old)
Place of Birth
Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
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
Acting
(1993)
(1991)
A Fine Romance
as Madame Legris
(1988)
The Seasons of Pleasure
as Emmanuelle van Bert
(1985)
Le Gaffeur
as la mère de Gabriel
(1984)
Le voleur de feuilles
as Isabelle Debecker
(1984)
(1984)
La vie est trop courte
as Mme Lambert
(1983)
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
as Madame Toussaint mother
(1982)
The Party 2
as Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother
(1980)
The Party
as Poupette, Vic's great grandmother
(1973)
La Vénus de Milo
as Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
(1971)
(1970)
Hello-Goodbye
as Concierge
(1970)
Le Mari, la femme et la mort
as Julie, la voisine
(1969)
Constance
as Mme Culver
(1969)
Le minotaure
as Rirette
(1969)
La Maison de campagne
as Baroness de Bocquigny
(1966)
J'y suis, j'y reste
as La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
(1965)
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
as Mrs. Dumont-Freville
(1964)
How to Make a French Dish
as Mrs. Boudard mother
(1960)
Love and the Frenchwoman
as La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
(1960)
The Crab Basket
as The impresario
(1959)
The Woman's Confidant
as La Comtesse
(1958)
Carve Her Name with Pride
as Mrs. Bushell
(1958)
Mimi Pinson
as The grandmother
(1958)
Police Judiciaire
as Madame Jambert
(1958)
Le Tombeur !!!
as Natacha Olivaro
(1958)
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
as Marguerite Martin
(1957)
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
as Marguerite Martin
(1957)
In Six Easy Lessons
as Jeanne Sandret
(1957)
(1957)
Sylviane de mes nuits
as Mrs. Anita de Santos
(1957)
The Crazy Hostel
as Grandmother
(1957)
A Night in the Balearics
as Marguerite Vargas
(1956)
Mitsou
as Estelle
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
La rue des bouches peintes
as Winifred
(1954)
The Seducer
as La mamma di Jacqueline
(1954)
The Sheep Has Five Legs
as Mme Durand-Perrin
(1954)
April Fools' Day
as Clémentine Prévost
(1954)
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
as Mme Grossac
(1954)
Rasputin
as La princesse Dikvona
(1954)
Service Entrance
as Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline
(1954)
Castles in Spain
as (no aceditada)
(1953)
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
as Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice
(1953)
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
as The baroness
(1953)
Julietta
as Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
(1953)
The Father of the Girl
as Mme Isabelle Marinier, mère
(1952)
Hello… I love you
as Mrs. Dupuis
(1951)
Les Petites Cardinal
as Mrs. Cardinal
(1951)
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
as Mrs. Tourelle
(1950)
My Friend Sainfoin
as Eugénie's mother
(1950)
Tête blonde
as Isabelle Truche
(1950)
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
as Gabrielle
(1950)
Rome Express
as Margot
(1950)
Round of Hours
as Madame Méry-Mirecourt
(1949)
Bonheur en location
as Gilde
(1949)
Une femme par jour
as La Duchesse de Kerentrec
(1948)
(1947)
Devil in the Flesh
as Madame Grangier
(1947)
Six Hours to Lose
as Madame de Witt
(1947)
Coïncidences
as Madame Bardolas
(1947)
Square of Knaves
as Mme de la Bastide
(1946)
The Ideal Couple
as Antoinette
(1946)
Strange Fate
as Madame d'Evremond
(1946)
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
as Miss Baxter
(1946)
We Request a Household
as Sabine Robinet
(1946)
Madame et son flirt
as The pseudo-cousin Léa
(1945)
Majestic Hotel Cellars
as Madame Van Bell
(1945)
The Queer Assignment
as Mrs. Brockseller
(1944)
L'aventure est au coin de la rue
as Madame Laurat-Dossin
(1943)
Adieu Léonard
as Bernardine Leonard
(1943)
(1943)
Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
as Andrée's mother
(1943)
The Honorable Catherine
as Madame d'Ambroisie
(1943)
Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur
as Élisabeth Castille
(1942)
The Blue Veil
as Madame Volnar-Bussel
(1942)
Threesome Romance
as Loys Erland
(1942)
Boléro
as Anne-Marie Houillier
(1941)
Montmartre on the Seine
as Moussette
(1940)
Monsieur Hector
as Maroussia de Dragomir
(1939)
Serge Panine
as Lady Harton
(1939)
Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
as Paulette
(1937)
La Dame de Vittel
as Mrs. Bleu
(1937)
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
as Hortense, second teacher
(1935)
(1916)