Denise Grey
Acting • Born 1896-09-17 – Died 1996-01-13
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).
Filmography
99 credits
The Party
Movie • 1980
Poupette, Vic's great grandmother
The Party 2
Movie • 1982
Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother
Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
Movie • 1971
Carve Her Name with Pride
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Bushell
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Movie • 1957
Marguerite Martin
April Fools' Day
Movie • 1954
Clémentine Prévost
Jeunes filles à marier
Movie • 1935
La Dame de Vittel
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Bleu
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
Movie • 1937
Hortense, second teacher
La Rue des bouches peintes
Movie • 1955
Winifred
Serge Panine
Movie • 1939
Lady Harton
Threesome Romance
Movie • 1942
Loys Erland
The Blue Veil
Movie • 1942
Madame Volnar-Bussel
The Honorable Catherine
Movie • 1943
Madame d'Ambroisie
Le Gaffeur
Movie • 1985
la mère de Gabriel
Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
Movie • 1943
Andrée's mother
Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur
Movie • 1943
Élisabeth Castille
Madame et son flirt
Movie • 1946
The pseudo-cousin Léa
Strange Fate
Movie • 1946
Madame d'Evremond
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
Movie • 1946
Miss Baxter
Et dix de der
Movie • 1948
Betty
Round of Hours
Movie • 1950
Madame Méry-Mirecourt
Coïncidences
Movie • 1947
Madame Bardolas
My Friend Sainfoin
Movie • 1950
Eugénie's mother
Tête blonde
Movie • 1950
Isabelle Truche
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Tourelle
Les Petites Cardinal
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Cardinal
Monsieur Hector
Movie • 1940
Maroussia de Dragomir
The Woman's Confidant
Movie • 1959
La Comtesse
Love and the Frenchwoman
Movie • 1960
La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
Le Mari, la femme et la mort
Movie • 1970
Julie, la voisine
Mitsou
Movie • 1956
Estelle
J'y suis, j'y reste
Movie • 1966
La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Movie • 1953
The baroness
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
Movie • 1958
Marguerite Martin
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
Movie • 1983
Madame Toussaint mother
Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
Movie • 1939
Paulette
La Maison de campagne
Movie • 1969
Baroness de Bocquigny
Majestic Hotel Cellars
Movie • 1945
Madame Van Bell
Constance
Movie • 1969
Mme Culver
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Movie • 1954
Mme Durand-Perrin
The Seasons of Pleasure
Movie • 1988
Emmanuelle van Bert
Le Tombeur !!!
Movie • 1958
Natacha Olivaro
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Movie • 1950
Gabrielle
A Night in the Balearics
Movie • 1957
Marguerite Vargas
L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Movie • 1944
Madame Laurat-Dossin
Castles in Spain
Movie • 1954
(uncredited)
Villa Sans-Souci
Movie • 1955
Police Judiciaire
Movie • 1957
Madame Jambert
La Peau de l'ours
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Legrand, the mother-in-law
The Crab Basket
Movie • 1960
The impresario
Le Voleur de feuilles
Movie • 1984
Isabelle Debecker
Fantaisie d'un jour
Movie • 1955
Mrs. de Cédillon
The Crazy Hostel
Movie • 1957
Grandmother
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Movie • 1965
Mrs. Dumont-Freville
The Ideal Couple
Movie • 1946
Antoinette
Devil in the Flesh
Movie • 1947
Madame Grangier
Square of Knaves
Movie • 1947
Mme de la Bastide
Une femme par jour
Movie • 1949
La Duchesse de Kerentrec
Boléro
Movie • 1942
Anne-Marie Houillier
The Queer Assignment
Movie • 1945
Mrs. Brockseller
Six Hours to Lose
Movie • 1947
Madame de Witt
The Father of the Girl
Movie • 1953
Mme Isabelle Marinier, mère
Montmartre on the Seine
Movie • 1941
Moussette
Service Entrance
Movie • 1954
Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline
La soupière
Movie • 1993
La Vénus de Milo
Movie • 1973
Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
Le jardin d'Eponine
Movie • 1984
The mother
La vie est trop courte
Movie • 1984
Mme Lambert
Le minotaure
Movie • 1969
Rirette
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
Movie • 1953
Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice
Adieu Léonard
Movie • 1943
Bernardine Leonard
We Request a Household
Movie • 1946
Sabine Robinet
Hello… I love you
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Dupuis
Bonheur en location
Movie • 1949
Gilde
How to Make a French Dish
Movie • 1964
Mrs. Boudard mother
Sylviane de mes nuits
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Anita de Santos
Mimi Pinson
Movie • 1958
The grandmother
Hello-Goodbye
Movie • 1970
Concierge
Retour de flamme
Movie • 1943
Madame de Nogrelles
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
Movie • 1954
Mme Grossac
Nemrod et compagnie
Movie • 1916
Julietta
Movie • 1953
Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
Rome Express
Movie • 1950
Margot
Rasputin
Movie • 1954
La princesse Dikvona
In Six Easy Lessons
Movie • 1957
Jeanne Sandret
The Seducer
Movie • 1954
La mamma di Jacqueline
A Fine Romance
Movie • 1991
Madame Legris
The Flashing Blade
TV • 1967
The Countess of Blainville
At Theatre Tonight
TV • 1966
La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
At Theatre Tonight
TV • 1966
Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
Un curé de choc
TV • 1974
Patricia Pougue
Midi Première
TV • 1975
Self
The Accursed Kings
TV • 1972
Madame Marie de Hongrie
Les Dames de la côte
TV • 1979
Adélaïde Decourt
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Stars 90
TV • 1990
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self