Grey Gardens [DVD video]

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.

General Note:

Title from disc surface.

DVD release of the 1976 motion picture.

Publication imprint varies.

Some copies may lack booklet.

Special features: New transfer; audio commentary by directors Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, and associate producer Susan Froemke; excerpts from recorded interview with Little Edie Beale by Kathryn G. Graham for Interview magazine (1976); video interviews with fashion designers Todd Olham and John Bartlett on the continuing influence of Grey Gardens; hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs; trailers; filmographies.

Performers:

Edith Bouvier Beale, Edie Beale.

Personal Subject:

Beale, Edith Bouvier, -1977.

Beale, Edie, 1917-2002.

Subject Term:

Mothers and daughters -- New York (State) -- East Hampton -- Biography.

Recluses -- New York (State) -- East Hampton -- Biography.

Genre:

Feature films.

Biographical films.

Documentary films.