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Grey gardens

Grey Gardens is the unbelievable but true story of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Mother and daughter live in a world of their own behind the towering privets that surround their decaying 28-room East Hampton mansion known as "Grey Gardens," a place so far gone that the local authorities once threatened to evict them for violating building and sanitation codes. The incident made national headlines -- American royalty, living in squalor! For the Beales were nothing short of the upper crust. Mrs. Beale, a.k.a. "Big Edie," was a born aristocrat, sister of "Black Jack" Bouvier, Jackie O's father. "Little Edie" was an aspiring actress of striking beauty who put her New York life on hold to care for her mother - and never left her side again. Together they descended into a strange life of dependence and eccentricity that no one had ever shared until the Maysles arrived with their camera and tape recorder. The Beales were ready for their close-ups. Little Edie -- a still-attractive woman at 56 -- parades about coquettishly in her trademark improvised turbans (her wildly original ensembles inspired a 9-page fashion spread in a 1998 issue of Harper's Bazaar and a 1999 issue of Italian Vogue), reminisces about her brilliant past, still hoping that her Big Chance and Big Romance arejust around the corner. Big Edie, trained soprano in her bohemian days, trills romantic songs of yesteryear in a slightly wobbly, but still rich voice. The women bicker, prattle, and flirt like characters out of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. The film is a bittersweet love story, a record of the powerful and complex relationship between mother and daughter.--Kanopy.

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  • "Deux films cultes de Albert et David Maysles"
  • "Edie et Mrs Beale"
  • "Gray gardens"
  • "Grey Gardens (Edie et Mrs Beale)"
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  • "David and Albert Maysles' cinema-verite study of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, two eccentric people who live together with many cats and their memories of the past."
  • "Grey Gardens is the unbelievable but true story of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Mother and daughter live in a world of their own behind the towering privets that surround their decaying 28-room East Hampton mansion known as "Grey Gardens," a place so far gone that the local authorities once threatened to evict them for violating building and sanitation codes. The incident made national headlines -- American royalty, living in squalor! For the Beales were nothing short of the upper crust. Mrs. Beale, a.k.a. "Big Edie," was a born aristocrat, sister of "Black Jack" Bouvier, Jackie O's father. "Little Edie" was an aspiring actress of striking beauty who put her New York life on hold to care for her mother - and never left her side again. Together they descended into a strange life of dependence and eccentricity that no one had ever shared until the Maysles arrived with their camera and tape recorder. The Beales were ready for their close-ups. Little Edie -- a still-attractive woman at 56 -- parades about coquettishly in her trademark improvised turbans (her wildly original ensembles inspired a 9-page fashion spread in a 1998 issue of Harper's Bazaar and a 1999 issue of Italian Vogue), reminisces about her brilliant past, still hoping that her Big Chance and Big Romance arejust around the corner. Big Edie, trained soprano in her bohemian days, trills romantic songs of yesteryear in a slightly wobbly, but still rich voice. The women bicker, prattle, and flirt like characters out of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. The film is a bittersweet love story, a record of the powerful and complex relationship between mother and daughter.--Kanopy."@en
  • "A documentary portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens."@en
  • "Grey Gardens captures the haunting relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Little Edie. Two endearing recluses who happen to be aunt and first cousin to Jackie Onassis. They feed cats and racoons while they rehash the past behind the walls of the East Hampton mansion."
  • ""Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, codirected by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen. The Blu-ray edition features the 2006 follow-up to the film, The Beales of Grey Gardens, constructed from hours of extra footage in the filmmakers' vaults"--Container."
  • "Documents a decaying East Hampton mansion inhabited by two recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter Edie Beale (aunt and cousin of Jackie Onassis), and shows the eccentricity of their personalities."@en
  • "Musical based on the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale (1896-1977) and her daughter "Little Edie" Beale (1917-2002), cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis."
  • "Documentary about two former socialites who live as recluses in a delapidated house."@en
  • "Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and racoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens."@en
  • "Film culte sur la relation obsessionnelle de deux personnes excentriques, Edith Bouvier Beale et sa fille, retirees du monde dans une maison a l'abandon sur Long Island."
  • "Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, who was once an aspiring actress in New York. Edie left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again."@en
  • "Portrait of the relationship between two eccentric recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and talk about their past behind the walls of their East Hampton mansion."
  • "Observes the reclusive lives of Edith Bouvier Beale, nearing 80, and her daughter Edie who live with cats and raccoons in Grey Gardens, a crumbling mansion in East Hampton."@en
  • "Grey Gardens captures the combatative yet loving relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, an aspiring actress who abandoned her career to care for her aging mother and never left. Mother and daughter feed cats and racoons while they rehash the past behind the walls of their crumbling mansion Grey Gardens. Filmmakers, David and Al Maysles' training in psychology is evident in the open minded manner in which they engage with the two Edies. The critical eye of the filmmakers is simultaneously insightful and respectful as it delves into the fascinating lives of these two women who appear to be stuck in time and unwilling or unable to acknowledge that their world is literally falling down around them. After its release, Grey Gardens became a cult classic and has since been remade as both a musical as well as a television movie starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore."@en
  • "Documentary of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beal (79) and her daughter Edie (57), filmed in their rotting, filthy home, which was officially declared a health hazard. Edie was once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton, N.Y. home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying 28-room mansion, Grey Gardens."
  • "Documentary/fictional portrait of a branch of Jackie Onassis's family: cousins Big and Little Eddie Beale, high-society castaways keeping house in a dilapidated East Hampton mansion."@en
  • "A documentary feature film capturing a visit by the Maysles to a decaying East Hampton mansion inhabited by two recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter Edie Beale (aunt and cousin of Jackie Onassis), showing the eccentricity of the personalities, the relationship and a residence filled with clutter, cats and memories. Cinéma vérité style."@en
  • "After Grey Gardens spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical to an upcoming Hollywood adaptation, the filmmakers went back to their vaults to create this tribute to both the Beale women and their legion of fans. This edition includes the original documentary, Grey Gardens along with the unseen archival footage for the 2006 documentary, Beales of Grey Gardens."@en
  • "Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, "Little" Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens."
  • "Grey Gardens captures the haunting relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter."@en
  • "Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens."@en
  • "Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, codirected by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen."@en
  • "Maysles Brothers document the love/hate relationship between two eccentrics, Edith Bouvier Beale and her 56 year old daughter Edith, aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy/Onassis. The two women are filmed at their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens at Long Island."@en
  • "A documentary film of Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, in their decaying East Hampton 28 room mansion who are aunt and cousin to Jackie Kennedy Onassis."@en
  • "For more than 20 years, few people had visited Grey Gardens -- then the Maysles brothers arrived with their camera. The result is a controversial "cult" film that captures the odd and haunting relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie. Two engaging, eccentric recluses (who also happen to be the aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis), they feed cats and raccoons while they rehash the past behind the walls of a decaying East Hampton, Long Island mansion."@en
  • "Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange, Grey Gardens tells the tender, intimate story of an eccentric mother and daughter (both named Edith Bouvier Beale aka "Big and Little Edie"). They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes but withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their Long Island summer home, "Grey Gardens ." As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the world when international tabloids learned of a health department raid on their home, and Jackie swooped in to save her relatives. Based on the lives that inspired the Maysles Brothers' classic documentary."@en
  • "Reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis live in a dilapidated mansion."@en
  • "Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens."@en
  • "Edith Beale, mother and daughter shown as they live their lives in a overgrown, rundown mansion in East Hampton. The local authorities have several times told them to repair their unsanitary living conditions, but they prefer them as they are. The women are isolated from the world except for radio and spend most of their time reliving their pasts."
  • "Home use only."@en
  • "Grey Gardens captures the haunting relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Little Edie. Two endearing recluses happen to be aunt and first cousin to Jackie Onassis. They feed cats and racoons while they rehash the past behind the walls of the East Hampton mansion."@en

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