Denise Grey
Born September 17, 1896 (Age: 129)
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Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
Biography
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).
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).
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Filmography
La soupière
1993
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as
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Age: 96
A Fine Romance
1991
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as Madame Legris
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Age: 94
The Seasons of Pleasure
1988
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as Emmanuelle van Bert
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Age: 91
Le Gaffeur
1985
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as la mère de Gabriel
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Age: 88
The Party
1980
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as Poupette, Vic's great grandmother
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Age: 84
La Vénus de Milo
1973
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as Mme Alix Passegrain, veuve du magistrat
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Age: 76
Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
1971
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as
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Age: 75
Le Mari, la femme et la mort
1970
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as Julie, la voisine
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Age: 73
La Maison de campagne
1969
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as Baroness de Bocquigny
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Age: 73
Le minotaure
1969
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as Rirette
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Age: 72
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
1965
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as Mrs. Dumont-Freville
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Age: 68
How to Make a French Dish
1964
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as Mrs. Boudard mother
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Age: 67
Love and the Frenchwoman
1960
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as La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
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Age: 63
The Crab Basket
1960
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as The impresario
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Age: 63
The Woman's Confidant
1959
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as La Comtesse
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Age: 62
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
1958
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as Marguerite Martin
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Age: 61
Mimi Pinson
1958
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as The grandmother
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Age: 61
Le Tombeur !!!
1958
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as Natacha Olivaro
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Age: 61
Carve Her Name with Pride
1958
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as Mrs. Bushell
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Age: 61
Mitsou
1956
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as Estelle
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Age: 60
La Rue des bouches peintes
1955
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as Winifred
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Age: 58
Villa Sans-Souci
1955
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as
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Age: 58
Fantaisie d'un jour
1955
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as Mrs. de Cédillon
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Age: 58
The Seducer
1954
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as La mamma di Jacqueline
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Age: 58
The Sheep Has Five Legs
1954
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as Mme Durand-Perrin
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Age: 58
Service Entrance
1954
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as Mme Thévenot, la mère d'Aline
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Age: 57
Castles in Spain
1954
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as (uncredited)
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Age: 57
April Fools' Day
1954
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as Clémentine Prévost
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Age: 57
Rasputin
1954
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as La princesse Dikvona
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Age: 57
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
1954
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as Mme Grossac
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Age: 57
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
1953
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as Mme Hazard-Habran, la directrice
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Age: 56
The Father of the Girl
1953
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as Mme Isabelle Marinier, mère
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Age: 56
Julietta
1953
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as Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
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Age: 56
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
1953
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as The baroness
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Age: 56
Tête blonde
1950
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as Isabelle Truche
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Age: 53
My Friend Sainfoin
1950
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as Eugénie's mother
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Age: 53
Round of Hours
1950
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as Madame Méry-Mirecourt
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Age: 53
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
1950
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as Gabrielle
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Age: 53
Rome Express
1950
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as Margot
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Age: 53
The Queer Assignment
1945
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as Mrs. Brockseller
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Age: 49
Majestic Hotel Cellars
1945
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as Madame Van Bell
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Age: 48
The Blue Veil
1942
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as Madame Volnar-Bussel
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Age: 46
Threesome Romance
1942
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as Loys Erland
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Age: 45
Boléro
1942
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as Anne-Marie Houillier
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Age: 45
Montmartre on the Seine
1941
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as Moussette
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Age: 45