Acting
Denise Grey
FR, EN, IT cinema · 89 credits
Born
17 September 1896
Died
13 January 1996 (aged 99)
Birthplace
Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
Also known as Denise Gray · Édouardine Verthuy
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
A Fine Romance
as Madame Legris
The Seasons of Pleasure
as Emmanuelle van Bert
Le Gaffeur
as la mère de Gabriel
Le Voleur de feuilles
as Isabelle Debecker
Le jardin d'Eponine
as The mother
La vie est trop courte
as Mme Lambert
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
as Madame Toussaint mother
The Party 2
as Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother
The Party
as Mrs Valadier aka 'Poupette', Vic's great grandmother
La Vénus de Milo
as Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
Le Mari, la Femme et la Mort
as Julie, la voisine
Hello-Goodbye
as Concierge
La Maison de campagne
as Baroness de Bocquigny
Constance
as Mme Culver
Le minotaure
as Rirette
Tout pour le mieux
as Mme Barbetti
J'y suis, j'y reste
as La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
as Mrs. Dumont-Freville
How to Make a French Dish
as Mrs. Boudard mother
Love and the Frenchwoman
as La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
The Crab Basket
as The impresario
The Woman's Confidant
as La Comtesse
Carve Her Name with Pride
as Mrs. Bushell
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
as Marguerite Martin
Le Tombeur !!!
as Natacha Olivaro
Mimi Pinson
as The grandmother
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
as Marguerite Martin
A Night in the Balearics
as Marguerite Vargas
Police Judiciaire
as Madame Jambert
La Peau de l'ours
as Mrs. Legrand, the mother-in-law
The Crazy Hostel
as Grandmother
Sylviane de mes nuits
as Mrs. Anita de Santos
In Six Easy Lessons
as Jeanne Sandret
Mitsou
as Estelle
La Rue des bouches peintes
as Winifred
Fantaisie d'un jour
as Mrs. de Cédillon
April Fools' Day
as Clémentine Prévost
The Sheep Has Five Legs
as Mme Durand-Perrin
Castles in Spain
as (uncredited)
Service Entrance
as Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
as Mme Grossac
Rasputin
as La princesse Dikvona
The Seducer
as La mamma di Jacqueline
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
as The baroness
The Father of the Girl
as Mme Isabelle Marinier, mère
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
as Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice
Julietta
as Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
Hello… I love you
as Mrs. Dupuis
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
as Mrs. Tourelle
Les Petites Cardinal
as Mrs. Cardinal
Round of Hours
as Madame Méry-Mirecourt
My Friend Sainfoin
as Eugénie's mother
Tête blonde
as Isabelle Truche
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
as Gabrielle
Rome Express
as Margot
Une femme par jour
as La Duchesse de Kerentrec
Bonheur en location
as Gilde
Et dix de der
as Betty
Coïncidences
as Madame Bardolas
Devil in the Flesh
as Madame Grangier
Carré de valets
1947
Square of Knaves
as Mme de la Bastide
Six Hours to Lose
as Madame de Witt
Madame et son flirt
as The pseudo-cousin Léa
Strange Fate
as Madame d'Evremond
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
as Miss Baxter
The Ideal Couple
as Antoinette
We Request a Household
as Sabine Robinet
Majestic Hotel Cellars
as Madame Van Bell
The Queer Assignment
as Mrs. Brockseller
L'aventure est au coin de la rue
as Madame Laurat-Dossin
The Honorable Catherine
as Madame d'Ambroisie
Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
as Andrée's mother
Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur
as Élisabeth Castille
Adieu Léonard
as Bernardine Leonard
Retour de flamme
as Madame de Nogrelles
Threesome Romance
as Loys Erland
The Blue Veil
as Madame Volnar-Bussel
Boléro
as Anne-Marie Houillier
Montmartre on the Seine
as Moussette
Monsieur Hector
as Maroussia de Dragomir
Serge Panine
as Lady Harton
Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
as Paulette
La Dame de Vittel
as Mrs. Bleu
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
as Hortense, second teacher