Denise Gray
Denise Gray (born September 17, 1896 in Châtillon as Edouardine Verthuy , † January 13, 1996 in Paris ) was a French actress .
Life
Denise Gray, who comes from the Aosta Valley , began her professional career as a saleswoman and as a model. This is how she was discovered for film and made her debut in the silent film production Mademoiselle Etchika in 1913 . However, she did not achieve her artistic breakthrough in film, but in 1915 as a singer in the revues of the Folies Bergère , when she had to replace a colleague at short notice. This led to a solo engagement at Cabaret La Pied Qui Cante . During the 1920s and 1930s she played on various Parisian stages, but also repeatedly in film productions such as Adieu, Leonard! . She played the leading role alongside Fernandel in the 1940 comedy Monsieur Hector and was seen in a larger role in Claude Autant-Lara's literary film adaptation of the Devil in the Body from 1947.
After the Second World War, she belonged for a long time to the Comédie-Française ensemble alongside Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud , where she played “Dorinne” in Tartuffe . Gray had late success as the great-grandmother of Sophie Marceau in La Boum - The Fete and La Boum 2 - The Fete Goes On .
In 1991 Denise Gray retired from the stage at the age of 95. She died in Paris eight months before her 100th birthday.
Filmography (selection)
- 1913: Mademoiselle Etchika
- 1940: Monsieur Hector
- 1945: ... and something like that is called a detective (L'insaissisable Frédéric)
- 1946: Patricia (Étrange destin)
- 1947: Stormy youth (Le Diable au corps)
- 1948: Young man with seven women (Une femme par jour)
- 1952: Under the lights of Paris (La Tournée des Grand-Ducs)
- 1953: In the big girls' dormitory (Dortoir des grandes)
- 1953: Julietta
- 1954: The Sunday Angler (Poisson d'avril)
- 1954: The mutton with five legs (Le mouton à cinq pattes)
- 1954: Rasputin (Raspoutine)
- 1957: No rose without thorns (La Peau de l'ours)
- 1958: The involuntary rocket flier (A pied, à cheval et en spoutnik)
- 1960: Bombs on Monte Carlo
- 1960: One stabs the wasp's nest (Le Panier à crabes)
- 1960: The French woman and love (La Française et l'Amour)
- 1970: Hello - Goodbye
- 1980: La Boum - The Fete (La Boum)
- 1982: La Boum 2 - The party goes on (La Boum 2)
- 1982: The Fruit (N'oublie pas ton père au vestiaire)
- 1987: a turbulent weekend (Les Saisons du plaisir)
- 1992: A Spicy Affair (Tchin-Tchin)
Web links
- Denise Gray in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gray, Denise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verthuy, Edouardine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Châtillon |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1996 |
| Place of death | Paris |