Denise Grey
88 movies · 6 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 17, 1896
- Died
- Jan 13, 1996 (age 99)
- Place of birth
- Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
- Also known as
- Denise Gray · Édouardine Verthuy
Biography
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Denise Grey, real name Édouardine Verthuy, was a French actress.
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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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Known for
Denise Grey: movies and TV shows
Acting (94)
- 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 jardin d'Eponine
as The mother
- 1984 Le Voleur de feuilles
as Isabelle Debecker
- 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 Mrs Valadier aka 'Poupette', Vic's great grandmother
- 1979
- 1974
- 1973 La Vénus de Milo
as Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
- 1972
- 1971
- 1970 Hello-Goodbye
as Concierge
- 1970 Le Mari, la femme et la mort
as Julie, la voisine
- 1969
- 1969 La Maison de campagne
as Baroness de Bocquigny
- 1969 Constance
as Mme Culver
- 1969 Le minotaure
as Rirette
- 1967
- 1966 J'y suis, j'y reste
as La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
- 1966 At Theatre Tonight · TV
as La comtesse Apolline de Mont-Vermeil / Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat · 2 episodes
- 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 A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
as Marguerite Martin
- 1958 Mimi Pinson
as The grandmother
- 1958 Le Tombeur !!!
as Natacha Olivaro
- 1958 Carve Her Name with Pride
as Mrs. Bushell
- 1957 In Six Easy Lessons
as Jeanne Sandret
- 1957 Sylviane de mes nuits
as Mrs. Anita de Santos
- 1957 Police Judiciaire
as Madame Jambert
- 1957 On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
as Marguerite Martin
- 1957 La Peau de l'ours
as Mrs. Legrand, the mother-in-law
- 1957 The Crazy Hostel
as Grandmother
- 1957 A Night in the Balearics
as Marguerite Vargas
- 1956 Mitsou
as Estelle
- 1955 La Rue des bouches peintes
as Winifred
- 1955
- 1955 Fantaisie d'un jour
as Mrs. de Cédillon
- 1954 The Seducer
as La mamma di Jacqueline
- 1954 The Sheep Has Five Legs
as Mme Durand-Perrin
- 1954 Service Entrance
as Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline
- 1954 Castles in Spain
as (uncredited)
- 1954 April Fools' Day
as Clémentine Prévost
- 1954 Rasputin
as La princesse Dikvona
- 1954 The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
as Mme Grossac
- 1953 Inside a Girls' Dormitory
as Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice
- 1953 The Father of the Girl
as Mme Isabelle Marinier, mère
- 1953 Julietta
as Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
- 1953 The Tour of the Grand Dukes
as The baroness
- 1952 Hello… I love you
as Mrs. Dupuis
- 1951 Les Petites Cardinal
as Mrs. Cardinal
- 1951 Tomorrow We Get Divorced
as Mrs. Tourelle
- 1950 Tête blonde
as Isabelle Truche
- 1950 My Friend Sainfoin
as Eugénie's mother
- 1950 Round of Hours
as Madame Méry-Mirecourt
- 1950 Not Any Weekend for Our Love
as Gabrielle
- 1950 Rome Express
as Margot
- 1949 Bonheur en location
as Gilde
- 1949 Une femme par jour
as La Duchesse de Kerentrec
- 1948 Et dix de der
as Betty
- 1947 Square of Knaves
as Mme de la Bastide
- 1947 Coïncidences
as Madame Bardolas
- 1947 Devil in the Flesh
as Madame Grangier
- 1947 Six Hours to Lose
as Madame de Witt
- 1946 We Request a Household
as Sabine Robinet
- 1946 The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
as Miss Baxter
- 1946 Strange Fate
as Madame d'Evremond
- 1946 The Ideal Couple
as Antoinette
- 1946 Madame et son flirt
as The pseudo-cousin Léa
- 1945 The Queer Assignment
as Mrs. Brockseller
- 1945 Majestic Hotel Cellars
as Madame Van Bell
- 1944 L'aventure est au coin de la rue
as Madame Laurat-Dossin
- 1943 Adieu Léonard
as Bernardine Leonard
- 1943 Retour de flamme
as Madame de Nogrelles
- 1943 Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur
as Élisabeth Castille
- 1943 Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
as Andrée's mother
- 1943 The Honorable Catherine
as Madame d'Ambroisie
- 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 Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
as Paulette
- 1939 Serge Panine
as Lady Harton
- 1937 Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
as Hortense, second teacher
- 1937 La Dame de Vittel
as Mrs. Bleu
- 1935
- 1916
Talk shows and appearances (5)
- 1990 Stars 90
1 episode
- 1987 Sacrée soirée
3 episodes
- 1982 Champs-Elysées
3 episodes
- 1975 Midi Première
1 episode
- 1971 Samedi soir
1 episode