Notes on Grey Gardens
By September 03, 2001
In 1998, I interviewed “Little” Edie Beale, the surviving star of Grey Gardens, one of the Maysles’ numerous masterworks (Gimme Shelter, Meet Marlon Brando, and With Love Read more »
- United States
- 1976
- 94 minutes
- Color
- 1.33:1
- English
- Spine #123
SYNOPSIS: Meet Big and Little Edie Beale—high-society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O.—thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. An impossibly intimate portrait and an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, Albert and David Maysles’s 1976 Grey Gardens quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Edith Bouvier Beale | |
| Her daughter Edie |
Credits
| Director | Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer |
| Associate producer | Susan Froemke |
| Filmed by | Albert Maysles and David Maysles |
| Editing | Ellen Hovde, Susan Froemke and Muffie Meyer |
| Sound | Lee Dichter/Photo-Mag |
Disc Features
- New digital transfer
- Audio commentary by filmmakers Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, and Susan Froemke
- Excerpts from a recorded interview with Little Edie Beale by Kathryn G. Graham for Interview magazine (1976)
- Video interviews with fashion designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett on the influence of Grey Gardens
- Behind-the-scenes photographs
- Trailers
- Filmographies
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
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Film Essays
Announcements
Restocking Grey Gardens!
April 19, 2009
Big and Little Edie fans have been coming in droves to take advantage of our Grey Gardens $5-off sale. To such an extent, indeed, that we’ve temporarily sold out of Read more »
News
Garden Variety
April 16, 2009
If you’re feeling symptoms of Edie-itis lately—wearing sweaters and towels as kerchiefs, doing impromptu soft-shoes around the house, unexpectedly calling your mom “Mothuh Read more »
Clippings
Color Us Edies!
August 03, 2009
Have we found the perfect way to while away those lazy beach days at your Hamptons getaway, and pay homage to everyone’s favorite beach recluses, Big and Little Edie Beale, at Read more »
Summer 2009 Cineaste: Bardem, Maysles
June 25, 2009
Robert Koehler takes a long “second look” at Death of a Cyclist in the summer 2009 issue of Cineaste, sizing up Juan Antonio Bardem’s 1955 political melodrama Read more »
