few website on the ladies, and I've read that little edie died in 2002.

this is an interesting story, I urge you to show some interest...

Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary by the direction/cinematography/editing team of Albert and David Maysles, Susan Froemke, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer. The film depicts the everyday lives of two women who lived at Grey Gardens, a decrepit 28-room mansion in the Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.

The subjects of the film are Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother (also named Edith), who are the the aunt and the first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The two women lived together at Grey Gardens for over twenty years in squalor and almost total isolation. In 1972, their living conditions were exposed due to an article in the National Enquirer and a series of raids by the Suffolk County Health Department. Jackie Onassis convinced her husband Aristotle to pay for a cleaning and partial repair job on the house. It was during the restoration that Grey Gardens was made.

oh i've heard about this before. Is it easy to access?

thats prett cool.
i love Albert and David Maysles work.

Well I hired it on dvd from my local video shop. part of the criterion collection.

I highy recommend it.

http://www.greygardens.com/

• The lovely Jean Strong from Bay Bridge Productions contacted me last week with the fabulous news that previews will begin on October 3rd for Grey Gardens The Musical The show will debut at The Walter Kerr Theatre in New York.

Be sure to visit the musical's website for further information about ticket sales and details about a contest that is running in tandem with signups for their mailing list. Enter your name and you just might win an autographed CD of the show.

Jean notes there is also a special Myspace page for the musical, too.

yeah, not so keen on the idea of that musical. also read that a major movie is being made about it starring drew barrymore and jessica lange : /

well excuse me for trying!

those pics are beautiful lauren. will check this out for sure.

you won't regret it sveltes

There is a musical version of this too, Lobam.

Yeah, I discovered that the other day. a major movie in the works too...

make sure you see this original though. Nothing compares

ACMI in Melbourne recently screened a follow up of sorts, culled from footage that the Maysles didn't use in "Grey Gardens". It's called "The Beales of Grey Gardens" and you can probably track it down on DVD, although it didn't really do much for me... and it would only work if you've seen the original (which is one of my favourite docos)...

The latter, anyway, is an interesting character study on the Maysles role in the whole thing and how Little Edie in particular related to them and the camera.

oh wow, I completely missed that. I'll seek it out

I watched this last night. It's utterly bizarre. Their relationship made me feel kind of ill because of its extreme dysfunctionality, and their house made me feel sicker. I shudder to think what it was like during the period of real squalor mentioned above.

I had a dream last night that I had to stay there and Edie wouldn't let me leave.

hey lauren - nice thread

there was a maysles retrospective at the edinburgh film festival a few years back with albert as special guest of the festival and it was amazing

i went to a screening of this film and so many of us came out pale and disturbed

the house... there are no words. you've got to see the original documentary to believe it, although it will be interesting to see the new film version

the ladies who lived at grey gardens were relatives of john f. kennedy and their eccentricity was cause for a little embarrassment i believe

another doco of theirs, salesman, is also amazing if you get a chance

another doco by the maysles brothers, that is...

The Maysles brothers made Gimme Shelter too, which you would know cracksy, having seen that retrospective.

I don't want there to be a Hollywood version of this! Why do they always have to do that?

actually i haven't seen that Poster

i was on staff at that festival and only got to a few select screenings, but i loved what i saw :)

Ooh, I know what I'm going to be doing tomorrow night. Grey Gardens on SBS at 10 pm.

Fuck yeah!!! I been trying to catch this at ACMI for years.

Tonight! SBS!

EDIE !!!

Anyone want to record it? It will have ads in it, though. Shit.

Why the fuck would anyone think it was appropriate or desirable to make a musical out of this?

Broadway needs a cultural revolution to put to death every cunt who thinks ''it would be a better story if it was told in song.''

i just saw this recently, fascinating viewing. the photos they showed of little edie in her youth were so beautiful. they lived in a 28 room mansion yet it seemed as if they spent most of their time in the one room where they both slept together. i'd love to see what the house looks like restored.

i have it on dvd. is a bit boring. reminds me of me and my daughter. i actually forced her to watch it

YES!

it's fascinating, but you're right rodeo, it's a bit boring. i'll watch it regardless.

are you trying to make sure she leaves home when she's old enough rodeo?

nooo, shes staying to take care of me. when im old.

and crazy

So, just waiting on the ''old'' then...

she's a goner, i can tell.

my baby has already left me....i'm bereft.

ya seriously. poor edie, so dependant but kinda cool

My mum arrives tomorrow to stay with me for a week. I might show this to her as a cautionary tale.