“And when summer comes back to Saint Tropez, All the boys are beautiful in Saint Tropez, All the girls are beautiful, stunningly beautiful, At the love meeting in Saint Tropez“, sang Geneviève Grad, in the skin of the character Nicole Cruchot, the daughter of Ludovic Cruchot, the chief marshal Cruchot played by Louis de Funès in the cinematographic saga The Gendarme. The actress died last night at the age of 80.
Geneviève Grad lost to cancer
Her husband Jean Guillaume, with whom she was in a relationship since 1982 before getting married thirty-one years ago, revealed that the actress succumbed to cancer after “a courageous fight“, without revealing more details about the illness from which she suffered, as reported by Le Parisien. It was in the Polyclinic of Blois in Loir-et-Cher) that Geneviève Grad took her last breath. The general public will remember of her as the interpreter of Nicole Cruchot in three of the six parts of the famous saga carried by Louis de Funès: The gendarme of Saint-Tropez, The Constable in New York et The policeman gets marriedreleased between 1964 and 1968. In the first feature film, she sang the songs that became cult Douliou-douliou-Saint Tropez written by André Pascal and composed by Raymond Lefebvre and Paul Mauriat, mixing the twist with yéyé and hully-gully dance.
A great career and a child with Igor Bogdanoff
One of his first roles on the big screen was in 1961 with Jean Marais in Captain Fracasse. A year later, she was in the casting ofArsène Lupine vs. Arsène Lupinebefore playing opposite Steve Reeves in 1963 in Sandokan, the tiger of Bornéo. In 1970, Geneviève Grad was on the bill forOSS 117 takes a vacation by Pierre Kalfon. In 1980, she made her penultimate appearance in the film with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Daniel Prévost, Darry Cowl and Marion Game. Between 1962 and 1980, she also appeared in four plays, five television films and around ten television series. In 1976, Geneviève Grad had a child with Igor Bogdanoff, whom she met while she was a production assistant on the show Time.
