A new documentary, directed by Goran Hugo Olsson, sheds further light on Big Edie and Little Edie, with footage from 1972. By Glenn Kenny Relatives of the former first lady are suing over a ...

Rather, when Big Edie (Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale) was in her 30s, her Wall Street husband Phelen Beale Jr. left her. Little Edie received child support, but Big Edie was left with nothing but the ...

Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale lived at Grey Gardens, an East Hampton estate at 3 West End Road. From an ... They became famous in 1975 when a ...

Big Edie and her daughter, Little Edie, became cultural icons because of the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, but their story was nearly told before then.Now, director Göran Hugo Olsson has ...

Edith Bouvier Beale found fame thanks to the Maysels' documentary, ... Her father, Phelan Beale, left Big Edie in the 1930s and provided scant financial support. In 1952, ...

If you are a fan of the original or the HBO tribute/remake of the documentary Grey Gardens, there is a beautiful book out. East Hampton's Little Edie Bouvier Beale is an inspiration to most of the ...

“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 ...

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 turtlenecks. You ...

Little Edie died in 2002, at the age of eighty-four, in her New York apartment, where she was discovered five days after her death, when a fan became concerned that she had not answered the phone.

Aside from getting a glimpse at the interior of Little Edie’s life long before documentary cameras were there to capture it, the diary will give us the unique opportunity—from a historical ...

A new documentary, directed by Goran Hugo Olsson, sheds further light on Big Edie and Little Edie, with footage from 1972. By Glenn Kenny Relatives of the former first lady are suing over a ...