“Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”: death of Geneviève Grad who sang the theme song for the film “Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez”

The actress Geneviève Grad, who performed “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”, the song from the film “Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez” with Louis de Funès, died in the night from Thursday to Friday. At age 80, she was battling cancer. 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 became familiar with her face through the role of the daughter of the chief marshal Cruchot, played by Louis de Funès in the successful “Gendarmes” film series: “Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez” (1964) , “The Constable in New York” (1965), “The Constable Gets Married” (1968). In the first part, Geneviève Grad herself sings “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”, a pop song that has gone down in history and is often misspelled as “Do you do you Saint-Tropez”.

His career in front of the camera is, however, broader than this period, since his first major role was in “Le Capitaine 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.

We find her as a production assistant in the anticipation TV show “Temps Bogdanoff brothers.

Geneviève Grad 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”.