Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 17, 1896
Died
Jan 13, 1996
Place of Birth
Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
Credits
99 titles
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
Filmography
La soupière
A Fine Romance
Madame Legris
Stars 90
Self
The Seasons of Pleasure
Emmanuelle van Bert
Sacrée soirée
Self
Le Gaffeur
la mère de Gabriel
Le jardin d'Eponine
The mother
Le Voleur de feuilles
Isabelle Debecker
La vie est trop courte
Mme Lambert
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
Madame Toussaint mother
The Party 2
Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother
Champs-Elysées
Self
The Party
Mrs Valadier aka 'Poupette', Vic's great grandmother
Les Dames de la côte
Adélaïde Decourt
Midi Première
Self
Un curé de choc
Patricia Pougue
La Vénus de Milo
Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
The Accursed Kings
Madame Marie de Hongrie
Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
Samedi soir
Self
Hello-Goodbye
Concierge
Le Mari, la femme et la mort
Julie, la voisine
Les aventures de Babar
La vieille dame
La Maison de campagne
Baroness de Bocquigny
Constance
Mme Culver
Le minotaure
Rirette
The Flashing Blade
The Countess of Blainville
At Theatre Tonight
La comtesse Apolline de Mont-Vermeil
J'y suis, j'y reste
La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Mrs. Dumont-Freville
How to Make a French Dish
Mrs. Boudard mother
Love and the Frenchwoman
La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
The Crab Basket
The impresario
The Woman's Confidant
La Comtesse
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
Marguerite Martin
Mimi Pinson
The grandmother
Le Tombeur !!!
Natacha Olivaro
Carve Her Name with Pride
Mrs. Bushell
In Six Easy Lessons
Jeanne Sandret
Sylviane de mes nuits
Mrs. Anita de Santos
Police Judiciaire
Madame Jambert
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Marguerite Martin
La Peau de l'ours
Mrs. Legrand, the mother-in-law
The Crazy Hostel
Grandmother
A Night in the Balearics
Marguerite Vargas
Mitsou
Estelle
La Rue des bouches peintes
Winifred
Villa Sans-Souci
Fantaisie d'un jour
Mrs. de Cédillon
The Seducer
La mamma di Jacqueline