Gray Gardens Movie Cast. Edie bouvier beale and her mother, edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of jackie kennedy onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a long island estate. Enjoy extras such as teasers and cast information.
The mother and daughter, cousins of jackie kennedy onassis, live in a decrepit mansion with highly limited funds and spend every day in a dirty house snarking at each other about failed. In this case truth is definitely stranger than fiction. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities.
An impossibly intimate portrait and an eerie echo of the kennedy camelot, albert and david maysles’s 1975 grey gardens has since become a cult classic and established little edie as fashion icon.
The original gray gardens documentary starring the actual big edie and little edie was released in 1976 so if you enjoyed this you might want to watch the real thing now. The original gray gardens documentary starring the actual big edie and little edie was released in 1976 so if you enjoyed this you might want to watch the real thing now. Edith bouvier beale sits on her bed, wrapped in a housecoat, surrounded by cats, singing in a reverie: Edie bouvier beale and her mother, edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of jackie kennedy onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a long island estate.
