Denise Grey
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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).
Acting
Movie
The Party
as Mrs Valadier aka 'Poupette', Vic's great grandmother
1980
Movie
The Party 2
as Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother
1982
Movie
The Sheep Has Five Legs
as Mme Durand-Perrin
1954
Movie
Devil in the Flesh
as Madame Grangier
1947
Movie
April Fools' Day
as Clémentine Prévost
1954
Movie
Carve Her Name with Pride
as Mrs. Bushell
1958
Movie
The Seasons of Pleasure
as Emmanuelle van Bert
1988
Movie
The Seducer
as La mamma di Jacqueline
1954
Movie
Love and the Frenchwoman
as La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
1960
Movie
Hello-Goodbye
as Concierge
1970
Movie
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
as Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice
1953
Movie
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
as Marguerite Martin
1957
Movie
Majestic Hotel Cellars
as Madame Van Bell
1945
Movie
A Fine Romance
as Madame Legris
1991
Movie
The Blue Veil
as Madame Volnar-Bussel
1942
Movie
How to Make a French Dish
as Mrs. Boudard mother
1964
Movie
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
as The baroness
1953
Movie
Service Entrance
as Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline
1954
Movie
Julietta
as Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
1953
TV
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
Movie
The Woman's Confidant
as La Comtesse
1959
TV
The Accursed Kings
as Madame Marie de Hongrie
1972
Movie
La Maison de campagne
as Baroness de Bocquigny
1969
Movie
Montmartre on the Seine
as Moussette
1941