Her father, Phelan Beale, left Big Edie in the 1930s and provided scant financial support. In 1952, after years spent modeling and pursuing show business fame in New York City, Little Edie ...

Beale and her mother – both named Edie and known as Big Edie and Little Edie – lived in East Hampton with dozens of raccoons, opossums, cats and the animls’ waste. The women would have been ...

There are two kinds of people in the world: Big Edies and Little Edies. Wait?what? Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale lived at Grey Gardens, an East ...

Take a look. THE PLAY GIRL Costume designer William Ivey Long had one big challenge while outfitting Christine Ebersole, who played Beale Off Broadway in Grey Gardens. ”[Edie] wore lots of ...

telling the story of Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, "Little Edie," and their fall from East Hampton aristocracy to a solitary life in a decrepit mansion. Where: Le Petit Theatre ...

Big Edie was a bohemian too ... Even as their circumstances deteriorated, the Beale women never lost their vanity. By the late 1950s, Little Edie is never without a head covering -- a disorder ...

“Grey Gardens,” the 1975 documentary about “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Beale, two reclusive relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy, has become an uneasy sort of classic, spawning both a 2006 ...

Big and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, used when they lived there, and the American flags with which Little Edie famously paraded around the house in the 1975 documentary that made her and her mother ...

The HBO movie Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Sucsy featuring Drew Barrymore as Little Edie and Jessica Lange as her mother Big Edie ... Best Set Decoration. Miss Beale is best known for ...

Caffey and Beale, and he was desperate to preserve their status in the Park Avenue Social Register, which wasn’t easy, given Big Edie’s behavior. She had always shocked the stiffs at the ...

A new documentary, directed by Goran Hugo Olsson, sheds further light on Big Edie and Little Edie ... attempts to explain how the style of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Little Edie ...