Death of Geneviève Grad, performer of the famous “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”

“Douliou douliou douliou Saint-Tropez; you can walk barefoot in Saint-Tropez…” The actress Geneviève Grad, interpreter of the famous theme song of the film “The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez” with Louis de Funès, died at the age of 80 on the night of Thursday to Friday, said her husband.

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 becomes familiar with the face of Geneviève Grad 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 “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.

“Time X” with the Bogdanoff brothers

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

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”.

By Editor