The actress and singer revealed by the successful film series “Gendarmes”, with Louis de Funès, died at the age of 80.
We owe him “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”, the famous theme song for “Gendarme de Saint-Tropez”.
A title which has often been misspelled, as “Do you do you Saint-Tropez”.
It’s a legendary song. The actress and singer Geneviève Grad, interpreter of the famous “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”, the song from the film The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez with Louis de Funès, died at the age of 80 on the night of Thursday to Friday, her husband told AFP. The actress passed away at the Blois Polyclinic (Loir-et-Cher) “at the end of a courageous fight against cancer”, said her husband, Jean Guillaume.
The general public discovered her in 1964 in 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 Gendarme of Saint-Tropez, The Constable in New York (1965) et The Gendarme gets married (1968). In the first part, Geneviève Grad herself sings “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”, a pop song passed down to posterity and often misspelled as “Do you do you Saint-Tropez”.
She had a son with Igor Bogdanoff
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 trained as a dancer at the Paris Opera until her adolescence experienced a slow career in the 1970s and turned her back on cinema in the early 1980s.
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We find her as a production assistant in the anticipation TV show “Temps twins, named Dimitri and born in 1976. She had been married for around thirty years to Jean Guillaume and still recently received, according to the latter, two to three requests for dedications by mail from “from Germany, Russia or Ukraine.
