Denise Grey

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 northwest Italy close to the French border The city was almost totally Frenchspeaking 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 greatgrandmother of Sophie Marceau she gained recognition from a new audience growing up in the 1980s She was a member of the ComédieFrançaise 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