Denise Grey
Denise Grey (born Édouardine Verthuy; 17 September 1896 – 13 January 1996) was an Italian-born actress who became a naturalized French citizen.

Biography

Édouardine Grey was born in Châtillon in the Aosta Valley of north-west Italy, close to the French border. The town at the time primarily spoke the Valdôtain dialect. She was naturalized as a French citizen on 13 July 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 work. 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 end 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. In 1986, she sang Devenir vieux (Becoming Old). 

She was a member of the Comédie-Française between 1944 and 1946 and between 1957 and 1958.

Personal life
She had a daughter: Suzanne Grey, also an actress, who was born on 28 June 1917 and died on 13 December 2005.

Death
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).

Selected filmography 
 Nemrod et compagnie (1916) - Esther Nuno
 Les bleus de l'amour (1918) - Mimi Bertin
 Honneur d'artiste (1920) - Miss Nicholson
 Jeunes filles à marier (1935)
 La dame de Vittel (1937) - Mme Bleu
 Trois artilleurs au pensionnat (1937) - Hortense, deuxième institrice
 Trois artilleurs à l'opéra (1938) - Paulette
 Serge Panine (1939) - Lady Harton
 Monsieur Hector (1940) - Maroussia de Dragomir
 Montmartre sur Seine (1941) - Moussette
 L'oasis dans la tourmente (1942)
 Bolero (1942) - Anne-Marie Houiller
 Romance à trois (1942) - Loys Erland
 The Blue Veil (1942) - Madame Volnar-Bussel
 The Honourable Catherine (1943) - Madame d'Ambroisie
 Des jeunes filles dans la nuit (1943) - La mère d'Andrée
 Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur (1943) - Élisabeth Castille
 Retour de flamme (1943) - Madame de Nogrelles
 Goodbye Leonard (1943) - Bernardine Léonard - la femme insupportable et dépensière de Félicien
 L'aventure est au coin de la rue (1944) - Madame Laurat-Dossin
 Majestic Hotel Cellars (1945) - Madame Van Bell
 L'extravagante mission (1945) - Mme Brockseller
 Madame et son flirt (1946) -La pseudo-cousine Léa
 Strange Fate (1946) - Madame d'Evremond
 The Ideal Couple (1946) - Antoinette
 L'insaisissable Frédéric (1946) - Miss Baxter
 On demande un ménage (1946) - Sabine Robinet
 Six heures à perdre (1947) - Mme. de Witt
 Devil in the Flesh (1947) - Madame Grangier
 Carré de valets (1947) - Madame de la Bastide
 Coincidences (1947) - Madame Bardolas
 Et dix de der (1948) - Betty
 Une femme par jour (1949) - La duchesse
 Bonheur en location (1949) - Gilde
 Rome Express (1950) - Margot
 Not Any Weekend for Our Love (1950) - Gabrielle, fille du baron
 La ronde des heures (1950) - Madame Méry-Mirecourt
 My Friend Sainfoin (1950) - La mère d'Eugénie
 Blonde (1950) - Isabelle Truche
 Demain nous divorçons (1951) - Mme Tourelle
 Les petites Cardinal (1951) - Mme Cardinal
 Allô... je t'aime (1952) - Mme Dupuis
 Article 519, Penal Code (1952) - Madre di Clara
 The Tour of the Grand Dukes (1953) - La baronne
 The Father of the Girl (1953) - Isabelle Marinier
 Dortoir des grandes (1953) - Mme. Hazard-Habran - La directrice
 Julieta (1953) - Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
 The Pirates of the Bois de Boulogne (1954) - Mme. Grossac
 The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954) - Mme Durand-Perrin, la mère
 Rasputin (1954) - La princesse Dikvona
 Poisson d'avril (1954) - Clémentine Prévost
 El torero (1954) - (uncredited)
 Service Entrance (1954) - Madame Thévenot
 Il seduttore (1954) - Jacqueline's Mother
 Fantaisie d'un jour (1954) - Mme. de Cédillon
 Spring, Autumn and Love (1955) - La cliente
 La villa Sans-Souci (1955)
 La rue des bouches peintes (1955) - Winifred
 L'auberge en folie (1956) - La grand-mère
 Mitsou (1956) - Estelle
 Une nuit aux Baléares (1957) - Marguerite Vargas
 La peau de l'ours (1957) - Mme Legrand, la belle-mère
 On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels (1957) - Marguerite Martin
 Sylviane de mes nuits (1957) - Mme Anita de Santos
 Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) - Mrs. Bushell
 It's All Adam's Fault (1958) - Jeanne Sandret
 Police judiciaire (1958) - Madame Jambert
 Le tombeur (1958) - Natacha Olivaro
 Mimi Pinson (1958) - La grand-mère
 A Dog, a Mouse, and a Sputnik (1958) - Marguerite Martin
 Le confident de ces dames (1959) - La comtesse de Corte Bianca
 Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960) - Contesse Tamm
 Le panier à crabes (1960) - L'impresario
 Love and the Frenchwoman (1960) - Danielle's mother (segment "Divorce, Le")
 La Bonne Soupe (1964) - Mme Boudard mère
 Pas de caviar pour tante Olga (1965) - Mrs. Dumont-Freville
 La maison de campagne (1969) - La baronne de Bocquigny
 Hello-Goodbye (1970) - Concierge
 Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé? (1971)
 Les Rois maudits (1972, TV Mini-Series) - Mme de Hongrie
 La boum (1980) - Poupette
 N'oublie pas ton père au vestiaire... (1982) - La dame à la moto
 La Boum 2 (1982) - Poupette
 En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger (1983) - Madame Toussaint mère
 Le voleur de feuilles (1984) - Isabelle Debecker
 Le gaffeur (1985) - La mère de Gabriel
 Les saisons du plaisir (1988) - Emmanuelle de La Grandière Van Bergh
 A Fine Romance (1991) - Madame Legris

References

1896 births
1996 deaths
People from Aosta Valley
Italian emigrants to France
Naturalized citizens of France
French stage actresses
French film actresses
French silent film actresses
French television actresses
Troupe of the Comédie-Française
Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
20th-century French actresses