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