Edie bouvier beale

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…

Little Edie, always making a fashion statement

Edith Bouvier Beale (7 November 1917 – circa 9 January 2002), American socialite, fashion model and cabaret performer. She was a first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill, and became widely known for her participation in the 1975 independent documentary film Grey Gardens by Albert and David Maysles. "Little Edie", a famously "staunch character", has become a beloved and legendary cult figure. These are some images from her seemingly charmed youth, most more than thirty…

In Göran Hugo Olsson’s new documentary, That Summer, never-before-seen footage of Big and Little Edie reveals their contradictions and eccentricities—and the woman who brought them out of the shadows.

Little Edie: “There are some nice people in the world, you know, I just don’t happen to be related to any of them.” Big Edie: “The cat’s going to the bathroom right in back …

A restored, 40th anniversary version of the documentary provides a perfect excuse to revisit our favorite family tragicomedy.

1972 - The dining room – with all the accumulated cans of cat food. Notice the assistant holding up the drapes on the left. Probably holding his nose too!

Edith Bouvier Beale found fame thanks to the Maysles' documentary. She found fulfillment, however, in the unexpected and utterly unique years that came next. Inside the untold story of Jackie Kennedy's most unusual relative and her incredible second act. #greygardens #littleedie #ediebeale #edithbouvierbeale #jackiekennedy #feature #leeradziwill #verytandc