Denise Grey

Denise Grey, real name douardine Verthuy, was a French actress.

douardine Grey was born Chtillon, 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 , Bolro or Devil in the Flesh . 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.

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