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).

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (5)

• Stars 90 — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• Midi Première — Self
• Samedi soir — Self