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).
1993 | La soupière |
1988 | Les Saisons du plaisir as Emmanuelle van Bert |
1985 | Le Gaffeur as la mère de Gabriel |
1984 | Le jardin d'Eponine |
1984 | Le voleur de feuilles |
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 | La Boum 2 as Poupette, grand-mère de François, arrière grand-mère de Vic |
1980 | La Boum as Poupette, l'arrière grand-mère de Vic |
1973 | La Vénus de Milo as Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat |
1971 | Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ? |
1970 | Hello-Goodbye as Concierge |
1970 | Le Mari, la femme et la mort as Julie, la voisine |
1969 | La Maison de campagne as Baroness de Bocquigny |
1969 | Constance as Mme Culver |
1969 | Le minotaure as Rirette |
1966 | J'y suis, j'y reste as La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil |
1965 | Pas de caviar pour tante Olga |
1964 | La Bonne Soupe as Mrs. Boudard mother |
1960 | La Française et l'Amour as La mère de Danielle (Le Divorce) |
1960 | Le panier à crabes as The impresario |
1959 | Le Confident de ces dames as La Comtesse |
1958 | À pied, à cheval et en spoutnik as Marguerite Martin |
1958 | Mimi Pinson as The grandmother |
1958 | Le Tombeur !!! as Natacha |
1958 | Police Judiciaire |
1958 | C'est la faute d'Adam as Jeanne Sandret |
1958 | Carve Her Name with Pride as Mrs. Bushell |
1957 | Sylviane de mes nuits as Mrs. Anita de Santos |
1957 | À pied, à cheval et en voiture as Marguerite Martin |
1957 | La peau de l'ours |
1957 | L'auberge fleurie |
1957 | Une nuit aux Baléares as Marguerite Vargas |
1956 | Mitsou ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles... as Estelle |
1955 | La rue des bouches peintes as Winifred |
1955 | Villa Sans-Souci |
1955 | Fantaisie d'un jour |
1954 | Il seduttore as La mamma di Jacqueline |
1954 | Le Mouton à cinq pattes as Mme Durand-Perrin |
1954 | Escalier de service as Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline |
1954 | El torero |
1954 | Poisson d'avril as Clémentine Prévost |
1954 | Raspoutine as La princesse Dikvona |
1954 | Les corsaires du Bois de Boulogne as Mme Grossac |
1953 | Dortoir des grandes as Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice |
1953 | Le père de Mademoiselle as Mme Isabelle Marinier, mère |
1953 | Julietta as Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine |
1953 | La tournée des grands ducs as la baronne |
1952 | Allô ! ... Je t'aime... as Mrs. Dupuis |
1951 | Les Petites Cardinal as Mrs. Cardinal |
1951 | Demain nous divorçons as Mrs. Tourelle |
1950 | Tête blonde as Isabelle Truche |
1950 | Mon ami Sainfoin as Eugénie's mother |
1950 | La Ronde des heures as Madame Méry-Mirecourt |
1950 | Pas de week-end pour notre amour 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 |
1947 | Carré de valets as Mme de la Bastide |
1947 | Coïncidences |
1947 | Le Diable au corps as Madame Grangier |
1947 | Six heures à perdre as Madame de Witt |
1946 | On demande un ménage as Sabine Robinet |
1946 | L'Insaisissable Frédéric as Miss Baxter |
1946 | Étrange destin as Madame d'Evremond |
1946 | Le Couple idéal as Antoinette |
1946 | Madame et son flirt as The pseudo-cousin Léa |
1945 | L'Extravagante Mission as Mme Brockseller |
1945 | Les Caves du Majestic 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 |
1943 | Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur as Élisabeth Castille |
1943 | Des jeunes filles dans la nuit as Andrée's mother |
1943 | L'Honorable Catherine as Madame d'Ambroisie |
1942 | Le Voile bleu as Madame Volnar-Bussel |
1942 | Romance à trois as Loys Erland |
1942 | Boléro as Anne-Marie Houillier |
1941 | Montmartre sur 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 |
1937 | La Dame de Vittel |
1935 | Jeunes filles à marier |
1916 | Nemrod et compagnie |
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