Edith Bouvier Beale

Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale

Brooks Hyers

Norman Vincent Peale

Jack Helmuth

Albert Maysles

David Maysles

Jerry Torre

Lois Wright

Grey Gardens Collection

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

Muffie Meyer

Ellen Giffard

Grey Gardens

Carly 

Gary W

Ben Flood

Grey Gardens - Original 1976 Trailer

Grey Gardens - Trailer

Three Reasons: Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens original trailer

Mother and daughter - Big Edie and Little Edie Beale - live with six cats in a crumbling house in East Hampton. Little Edie, in her 50s, who wears scarves and bright colors, sings, mugs for the camera, and talks to Al and David Maysles, the filmmakers. Big Edie, in her 70s, recites poetry, comments on her daughter's behavior, and sings "If I Loved You" in fine voice. She talks in short sentences; her daughter in volumes. The film is episodic: friends visit, there's a small fire in the house, Little Edie goes to the shore and swims. She talks about the Catholic Church. She's ashamed that local authorities raided the house because of all the cats. She values being different.

The Beales of Grey Gardens