Cast & creator
Denise Grey
Best known for Sacrée soirée, Champs-Elysées, Midi Première
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).
Also known as: Denise Gray, Édouardine Verthuy
88
film credits
12
television credits
100
1916–1993 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (100)
Showing 100 of 100 credits
Sacrée soirée
Self
1987
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Midi Première
Self
1975Samedi soir
Self
1971
At Theatre Tonight
La comtesse Apolline de Mont-Vermeil
1966At Theatre Tonight
Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
1966
Stars 90
Self
1990
Un curé de choc
Patricia Pougue
1974
The Accursed Kings
Madame Marie de Hongrie
1972
The Party
Mrs Valadier aka 'Poupette', Vic's great grandmother
1980
The Party 2
Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother
1982
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice
1953
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Mme Durand-Perrin
1954
The Flashing Blade
The Countess of Blainville
1967
Les Dames de la côte
Adélaïde Decourt
1979
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Marguerite Martin
1957
Devil in the Flesh
Madame Grangier
1947
Carve Her Name with Pride
Mrs. Bushell
1958
The Seasons of Pleasure
Emmanuelle van Bert
1988
Love and the Frenchwoman
La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
1960
Six Hours to Lose
Madame de Witt
1947
Tête blonde
Isabelle Truche
1950
Le Tombeur !!!
Natacha Olivaro
1958
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
Marguerite Martin
1958
The Crab Basket
The impresario
1960
Rome Express
Margot
1950
Le jardin d'Eponine
The mother
1984
A Fine Romance
Madame Legris
1991
The Woman's Confidant
La Comtesse
1959
La Rue des bouches peintes
Winifred
1955
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Gabrielle
1950
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
The baroness
1953
Round of Hours
Madame Méry-Mirecourt
1950
Monsieur Hector
Maroussia de Dragomir
1940
Sylviane de mes nuits
Mrs. Anita de Santos
1957
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
Mme Grossac
1954
Le Voleur de feuilles
Isabelle Debecker
1984
Et dix de der
Betty
1948Jeunes filles à marier
1935
April Fools' Day
Clémentine Prévost
1954
Madame et son flirt
The pseudo-cousin Léa
1946
La Vénus de Milo
Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
1973
Strange Fate
Madame d'Evremond
1946
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
Hortense, second teacher
1937
La Peau de l'ours
Mrs. Legrand, the mother-in-law
1957
Constance
Mme Culver
1969
In Six Easy Lessons
Jeanne Sandret
1957
La vie est trop courte
Mme Lambert
1984
Coïncidences
Madame Bardolas
1947
J'y suis, j'y reste
La comtesse Apoline de Mont-Vermeil
1966
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
Madame Toussaint mother
1983
Une femme par jour
La Duchesse de Kerentrec
1949
How to Make a French Dish
Mrs. Boudard mother
1964
Mitsou
Estelle
1956
The Father of the Girl
Mme Isabelle Marinier, mère
1953
Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
Paulette
1939
Montmartre on the Seine
Moussette
1941
Fantaisie d'un jour
Mrs. de Cédillon
1955
La Dame de Vittel
Mrs. Bleu
1937
Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
1971
My Friend Sainfoin
Eugénie's mother
1950
Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur
Élisabeth Castille
1943
Julietta
Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
1953
The Seducer
La mamma di Jacqueline
1954
Service Entrance
Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline
1954
Hello… I love you
Mrs. Dupuis
1952
A Night in the Balearics
Marguerite Vargas
1957
La Maison de campagne
Baroness de Bocquigny
1969
The Honorable Catherine
Madame d'Ambroisie
1943
Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
Andrée's mother
1943
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Mrs. Dumont-Freville
1965
Serge Panine
Lady Harton
1939
Bonheur en location
Gilde
1949
We Request a Household
Sabine Robinet
1946
Hello-Goodbye
Concierge
1970
Majestic Hotel Cellars
Madame Van Bell
1945
L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Madame Laurat-Dossin
1944
The Ideal Couple
Antoinette
1946
Le Mari, la femme et la mort
Julie, la voisine
1970
The Crazy Hostel
Grandmother
1957
Les aventures de Babar
La vieille dame
1969
The Queer Assignment
Mrs. Brockseller
1945
Police Judiciaire
Madame Jambert
1957
La soupière
1993Square of Knaves
Mme de la Bastide
1947
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
Mrs. Tourelle
1951
Adieu Léonard
Bernardine Leonard
1943
Le Gaffeur
la mère de Gabriel
1985
Mimi Pinson
The grandmother
1958
Castles in Spain
(uncredited)
1954
Boléro
Anne-Marie Houillier
1942
Le minotaure
Rirette
1969
Villa Sans-Souci
1955
Rasputin
La princesse Dikvona
1954
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
Miss Baxter
1946
Threesome Romance
Loys Erland
1942
Retour de flamme
Madame de Nogrelles
1943
The Blue Veil
Madame Volnar-Bussel
1942
Les Petites Cardinal
Mrs. Cardinal
1951