Geneviève Grad, the singer of the cult song “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”, is dead

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The actress Genevieve Gradinterpreter of the famous Douliou douliou Saint-Tropezsong from the film The policeman of Saint-Tropez with Louis de Funès, died at age 80 on the night of Thursday to Friday November 8, 2024, her husband toldAFP.

The actress died at the Blois Polyclinic (Loir-et-Cher) “at the end of a courageous fight against cancer »said her husband, Jean Guillaume.

A song that made her famous

The general public becomes familiar with his face via the role of the daughter of the chief marshal Cruchot, played by Louis de Funès in the series of successful films of the Gendarmes : The policeman of Saint-Tropez (1964), The Constable in New York (1965), The policeman gets married (1968).

In the first part, Geneviève Grad sings herself Douliou douliou Saint-Tropeza pop song passed down to posterity and often misspelled as “Do you do you Saint-Tropez”.

A career beyond Gendarmes

His career in front of the camera is, however, broader than this period, since his first major role was in Captain Fracasse (1961) with Jean Marais. She also made appearances in Italian adventure films in the 1960s.

The one who studied like dancer at the Paris Opera until his adolescence will experience a slow journey in the 1970s and will turn his back on cinema in the early 1980s.

She had a son with Igor Bogdanoff

We find her as a production assistant in the anticipation TV show Time of the Bogdanoff brothers, the most famous twins on the French small screen in the 1980s. She will also have a son with Igor, one of them.

She had been married for around thirty years to Jean Guillaume and until recently, according to the latter, received two to three requests for dedications by mail from “Germany, Russia or Ukraine”.

With AFP

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