Grey Gardens
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.
Synopsis
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.
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Cast
Directed by Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer, Albert Maysles
Edith Bouvier Beale
Self
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale
Self
Brooks Hyers
Self
Norman Vincent Peale
Self
Jack Helmuth
Self (uncredited)
Albert Maysles
Self (uncredited)
David Maysles
Self (uncredited)
Jerry Torre
Self (uncredited)
Lois Wright
Self (uncredited)
Production
The details
Release
1976
Runtime
95 min
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