Denise Grey
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 Appearances)
La soupière
A Fine Romance
Stars 90
The Seasons of Pleasure
Sacrée soirée
Le Gaffeur
Le jardin d'Eponine
Le Voleur de feuilles
La vie est trop courte
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
The Party 2
Champs-Elysées
The Party
Les Dames de la côte
Midi Première
Un curé de choc
La Vénus de Milo
The Accursed Kings
Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
Samedi soir
Hello-Goodbye
Le Mari, la femme et la mort
Les aventures de Babar
La Maison de campagne
Constance
Le minotaure
The Flashing Blade
At Theatre Tonight
J'y suis, j'y reste
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
How to Make a French Dish
Love and the Frenchwoman
The Crab Basket
The Woman's Confidant
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
Mimi Pinson
Le Tombeur !!!
Carve Her Name with Pride
In Six Easy Lessons
Sylviane de mes nuits
Police Judiciaire
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
La Peau de l'ours
The Crazy Hostel
A Night in the Balearics
Mitsou
La Rue des bouches peintes
Villa Sans-Souci
Fantaisie d'un jour
The Seducer
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Service Entrance
Castles in Spain
April Fools' Day
Rasputin
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
The Father of the Girl
Julietta
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Hello… I love you
Les Petites Cardinal
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
Tête blonde
My Friend Sainfoin
Round of Hours
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Rome Express
Bonheur en location
Une femme par jour
Et dix de der
Square of Knaves
Coïncidences
Devil in the Flesh
Six Hours to Lose
We Request a Household
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
Strange Fate
The Ideal Couple
Madame et son flirt
The Queer Assignment
Majestic Hotel Cellars
L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Adieu Léonard
Retour de flamme
Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur
Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
The Honorable Catherine
The Blue Veil
Threesome Romance
Boléro
Montmartre on the Seine
Monsieur Hector
Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
Serge Panine
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
La Dame de Vittel
Jeunes filles à marier
Nemrod et compagnie