Movie
Grey Gardens
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1976-02-19
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Portrait Films, Maysles Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Edith Bouvier Beale as Self
- Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale as Self
- Brooks Hyers as Self
- Norman Vincent Peale as Self
- Jack Helmuth as Self (uncredited)
- Albert Maysles as Self (uncredited)
- David Maysles as Self (uncredited)
- Jerry Torre as Self (uncredited)
- Lois Wright as Self (uncredited)
Crew
- Ellen Giffard - Director
- Muffie Meyer - Director
- David Maysles - Director
- Albert Maysles - Director
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