She's delightfully coquettish for a relatively oldish woman, there's something quite mesmerising about little Edie, incredibly charismatic. I'm not in the least surprised that the Maysles found their new subjects so much more fascinating and enjoyable to observe than the media and legally savvy Lee and Jackie.
how sweet and extremely lovely ....fell in love immediately ....please more of this Graceful female ...what sheer pleasure ....and inner beauty and outer .....lovely !!!
sleepypoodle: yes you can judge it that way, its so unfortunate but look at the beauty in all of it, it's so bitter sweet, yet so beautiful... im in love
"I'm sorry about the makeup ... I haven't been able to find it yet. This is a beautiful day ... another hurricane is coming. Did you know that?!" I love you, Little Edie....
I think it's incredibly lazy to place blame solely on Big Edie, mental illness, or society for the situation these two women found themselves in—entombed, stagnant, amidst the remains of a life of opulence as the world kept on turning around them. There are infinite layers and neuroses that led these women to their fate and even if they were still here to testify, we could only guess at what the nature of the problem was.
@teaClocks They both faced such cold heart break from their family. What that most be like to wake up one morning to find after years your wife or husband or dad just gone. That was their first big hurt ,but they had number of them lets not forgot their lib. family was the richest at the time.
I found it absolutely heart breaking the way her mother over took this woman because of her love and devotion to her. . . . . . . It was criminal. I found eddy creative, honest and sincerely captured and caged by her mom . . . . .. poor eddy..
@coldbluerain Actually, there ARE occasionally Hurricanes that reach Long Island. There was one in 1938 which caused quite a few deaths. Even immense homes simply dissolved beneath their occupants (from the flooding).
@macksfischer There are moments when she smiles and looks twenty something, incredible. I'm living in France and even the twenty somethings are fifty. The gaiety. True, I love to ham it up like that and people just think you are mad. It is so sad the world, people are so scared of anything different.
She was really beautiful in her youth and even into her 50s and as we can see from this clip she was lovely and charming and full of character. Her mother may have suffocated her and sent her slightly mad but she made it anyway through the documentary. She is loved and remembered as she might have been if her career had taken off and she had become a star in the conventional way in her youth.
Big Edie, transfer her to the southern U.S., change the accent, and she could have been MY mother. My mother also ended her life as an eccentric in unusual surroundings.She also had many cats, and some dogs. She wasn't mentally ill per se, but she was definitely "different", she had always been that way; unusual, literate, and totally unique. I love both the Edies to death. I would loved to have been Little Edie's friend, she was delightful.
As fascinated as I've always been with Jacqueline Onassis, Little Edie is infinitely more interesting. I'd rather spend 5 minutes talking to Little Edie than 5 days talking to Jackie.
she was seriously mentally ill, emotionally incapacitated and clearly suffering a great deal. people who are suffering don't walk around with a big sign that says "hey, I am in anguish!." but as long as it entertains you.
So what if she was crazy? She was an extremely interesting woman with more personality in her little finger than any average woman you'd find nowadays...
Don't tell me a person who lives in garbage and uses a spare room in there house as a toilet.She was mentally ill.She actually seems as if she has bi polar
I love her style,,,such an elegant woman.....they r not making any like that anymore,,,,love you little Edie,,,u r beautifullllllllllllllllllllllllllll
She had her problems, but she still had a lot to offer the world. Despite her issues, she found a way to live a happy life. Many, many fashion designers are inspired by her individual sense of fashion.
What an incredible woman, she absolutely fascinates me, positive & creative & with the energy & life-force of someone half her age.
To be so imaginative, free-spirited & remarkably unrestrained considering where she lived, but then she never was one to conform or run with the crowd.
I love the way she improvises her song & her playfully flirtatious manner with the Maysles; to have such a childlike quality without being childish is an enchanting attribute for an adult.
they lived in one of the most beautiful parts of the country, it looks so enchanting and magical there. but something in their existence cast a dark shadow over it, for them.
Look at her legs, OMG what a beautiful woman. Look at the creative outfits she comes up with throughout the documentary. She was definitely ahead of her times. I love her sophistication and air of regal elegance. You never see that anymore.
Poor thing she was so stuck in time noone showed them how to step into reality.... this is the only life they knew................little edie seemed kinda wierd but fun...:))
She certainly wasn't insane or an alcoholic, she was an eccentric, suppressed by a domineering mother who never gave her the opportunity to find her own way and flourish. It's such a tragic waste of a life never to realise one's potential. Little Edie would have been absolutely formidable, had she just been given the chance.
@sleepypoodle no, she was not formidable. if she was, she wouldn't have caved to her parents will at every juncture. she was crippled by her need for approval. this is precisely what makes her not formidable. many people have screwed up lives and parents who pressure them and abuse them. they get out and do what they want.
@AnotherCompartment this is an imbecile comment. How dare you judge people?? you don't know how she was inside, you don't know if she had an emotional structure that would help her get thropugh life, you don't know how damaged she was inside, just because there are people who go through hell and somehow get ahead doesn't mean that all people have the same strength/opportunities, there is no standard to be met, we can't judge people just like that, it's stupid.
@AnotherCompartment They had very little money and no support from the community.. Of course she wouldn't think of abandoning her mother. I feel sorry for your mother.
I know I stepped on your little fantasy with a dose of reality. This is not endearing. It is tragic. She was mentally ill and so was her mother. Other people here agree with me. If she was so bent on taking care of her dear mother, they would not have lived in sloth and she would have held a job. You are a sycophant.
Curious why this socialite would need to hold a job..
Though she lived in "sloth" she had plenty of money.
This woman and her mother are lovely people, and believe it or not, there are people STILL like this. (who do not have mental illness.. they are just eccentric)
She had very poor eyesight which must have affected her coordination a bit, but she never struck me as being drunk...a little intoxicated with life and so much energy but not enough means by which to channel it.
Her mother used emotional blackmail mostly & undermined her confidence, forcing a deeply unhealthy dependance on her. Also because little Edie was impractical & a hopeless romantic with unrealistic aspirations about being a professional singer & dancer, she was financially dependant on her mother & lacked the means to support herself.
Her father had tried to encourage her to find secretarial work in New York city which she loathed & was therefore unreliable & virtually unemployable.
Had this clip made it into the final cut I feel sure it would've become one of the focal scenes of the film, up there with "Tea for Two" and the "VMI Dance". As it is, this is one of my favorites of Edie's outfits. She looks fabulous.
It would have been so great if the Maysles had had a third, emotionally thwarted but peculiarly creative brother. Then Little E could've found freedom and romance once Muthah passed on and Grey Gardens was sold. She was mad about the Maysles..." Absolootly the most CLEVAH boys the MOST clevah !..."
these doco makers were happy to exploit mental illness, without really paying thetrue cost for it. But the are all too quick to reove the doco of you tube. which was free but now not.. Money before love . what a surprise Amererica.
She didn't want the documentary to end. She had a good time with them following her around with that camera. It's beautifully tragic. We were never supposed to see this woman and yet I can't get enough of her. It's like riding by a traffic accident, you slow down to look even though you should maintain the flow of traffic for the person behind you. You are in awe' you feel for this woman but it's nothing you can do but feel for her. Yet it's kind of sweet in a crazy sort of way. A rare treat
..Of course you shouldn't wear hose that are darker than your shoes. Or wear a skirt upside down. Or on your head. And you probably shouldn't feed the wildlife living in your attic. Or cook in a pot that one of your cats slept in. But we are dealing with--um--a DIFFERENT set of priorities here, maybe...?
She's so amazingly watchable. I'm always split between feeling really sad for her and feeling really inspired by her. Either way she's impressive and charming.
This is astounding. I fall more deeply in love with this woman with every viewing. She is Helen,Pandora, Terpsichore and Queen Dido all wrapped into one Faberge egg-like masterpiece !! Unlike Eugene, I really WOULD have made an honest woman out of you, dearest Edie ! I would've scooped you up and carried you off to NYC,Milan,Venice wherever your heart desired !! As long as you brought those costumes. The old woman would've had to stay behind tho. Big E could be a real pain in the ass.
I absolutly love this part of the documentary. Little Edie just exudes happiness. She is just like a giggly flirty little girl. Its absolutly adorable. And I agree.....she has an absolutly fabulous body for a woman her age. Her boobs are so perky for being braless. Just adorable. Miss you Edie.
So how come Lil Edi didnt inherit anythng from her father? I am sure the brothers did-how could they not give her some?. Who was the beoch who got it all?
Her father Phelan Beale remarried and his wife got most of his estate, however he had left them an allowance which her brothers were trustees of but Buddy was accused by little Edie of mismanaging and even stealing from it.
Eventually the allowance ran out and they resorted to selling personal valuables piece by piece.
They received $5,000 each from the Maysles for the documentary but had no share in the profits.
Jackie Onassis paid about $35,000 to make the house habitable (but not for long)
@xxXXxPagexXXxx Mmm, wasn't he 'Mrs Bouvier' though? I'm pretty sure that she had a damn site more than $35,000 of her own in various bank accounts and investments. Besides, most married couples hopefully regard their assets as shared rather than "mine and yours"... although these days there seems to be a depressingly large increase in the creation of pre-nuptual agreements; before long the wedding vows will be changed to "until divorce do us part"
They ended up in this world caught between...trying to have dinner parties on paper plates...making high fashion out of tablecloths...very intellectual women with no resources...when you watch the documentary, you can close your eyes and you hear very social, refined, intellectual women but then you open your eyes and the pictures doesn't match..which is how I am sure they felt. they couldn't or didn't know how to to anything...it use to all be done for them.
Most people ask how did they allow themselves to get like this...They lived in an era of servants, opulence...When girls went to school to learn oriental philosophies...to then come home, marry a richer man and spend your days planning menus and making small talk at your husband's dinners...But when the money runs out and there are no servants...you know how to make the menu but do not know how to cook...you know what a garden should look like but have no idea how to care for it.....
At 1:33 she says, "I'm not that broken down yet". Edie always seems just on the verge of tears yet blissfully crazy at the same time. It's like a facinating train wreck i can't quit staring at.
I love Little Edie. She wasn't crazy, but felt like she had no options. The Edies and the house didn't start out this way. The house became Big Edie's as her only asset after her husband divorced her. The unplumbed mystery is why she didn't move to smaller digs when it was still in good shape. They lacked a male relative to step in and do something (before Jackie did). It's an engaging story because of the mix of poor choices and stubborness, courage and creativity.
Big Edie refused to give up the house because of memories and because of what it symbolized. In the weird old traditions of grand families like the Bouviers, the property was a family "seat" and she was the "Lady of Grey Gardens". As long as that fiction remained intact, their "rank" and identity was maintained...even if they were broke with no servants or heat and racoons in the walls and attic. She couldnt be just another old lady in some smal,neat cottage ! She was a Bouvier dammit !!
I've grown so fond of Edie, I feel she is an extended member of my family. She was exceedingly intelligent, charming, real, full of fun and flirtation. I regret that she was so "managed" by her mother, she didn't have the chance for a fuller life. It haunts me.
Hail to the Edies, Bouvier Beale and Sedgwick...and to all aristocrats who unravel in that way that ONLY THEY CAN !!! Our pathologies are so insipid and middle class these days.
When I first saw Grey Gardens in 2006 I was immediately attracted to the lifestyle they chose to live. Elite Socialites who decided to throw away the extravagance, and glitter to live the way they did. At first I felt sorry for little Edie, then as I watched the documentary several times I realized that this Co-dependant relationship was based more on fear, sloth, and agoraphobic attributes. Still I am attracted to little Edie in a way where I feel bad for her?? I wonder why??
Because she was trapped. Remember when she said she brought home a man and "Mother got rid of him in 15 minutes" - Then big Edith said, "I didn't want another man in my kitchen or her running off, I would have been all alone!"
i'M NOT THAT BROKEN DOWN YET! Classic
hudstar2011 1 week ago
Love Little Edie!! I never get tired of the Beales!!
TheLadyjazzy1 1 month ago
She's delightfully coquettish for a relatively oldish woman, there's something quite mesmerising about little Edie, incredibly charismatic. I'm not in the least surprised that the Maysles found their new subjects so much more fascinating and enjoyable to observe than the media and legally savvy Lee and Jackie.
sleepypoodle 1 month ago
she sounds like (early) judy garland here . . .
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What an interesting and original person. I read her bio.
MowgliX 3 months ago
what great legs! the true crime was she put so much into this and they only paid her 5,000.
timm9 3 months ago 3
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you outta be in pictures is my hat falling off?
allhailhotsnail 4 months ago
Is that the real little Edie?
ElphabaDefysGravity 5 months ago
O.o Why....
TheDonSkittles 5 months ago
how sweet and extremely lovely ....fell in love immediately ....please more of this Graceful female ...what sheer pleasure ....and inner beauty and outer .....lovely !!!
lopescone 6 months ago
sleepypoodle: yes you can judge it that way, its so unfortunate but look at the beauty in all of it, it's so bitter sweet, yet so beautiful... im in love
charlipz45 7 months ago
wtf
1lashante90 7 months ago
"I'm sorry about the makeup ... I haven't been able to find it yet. This is a beautiful day ... another hurricane is coming. Did you know that?!" I love you, Little Edie....
sookiestackhouse2u 7 months ago 2
I think it's incredibly lazy to place blame solely on Big Edie, mental illness, or society for the situation these two women found themselves in—entombed, stagnant, amidst the remains of a life of opulence as the world kept on turning around them. There are infinite layers and neuroses that led these women to their fate and even if they were still here to testify, we could only guess at what the nature of the problem was.
teaClocks 7 months ago
@teaClocks They both faced such cold heart break from their family. What that most be like to wake up one morning to find after years your wife or husband or dad just gone. That was their first big hurt ,but they had number of them lets not forgot their lib. family was the richest at the time.
timm9 3 months ago
I found it absolutely heart breaking the way her mother over took this woman because of her love and devotion to her. . . . . . . It was criminal. I found eddy creative, honest and sincerely captured and caged by her mom . . . . .. poor eddy..
patriciawinters 7 months ago
She looked happy, the way a child is happy, I guess when it comes down to it, the heart is home and the heart is free.
zepDzen 8 months ago 3
@zepDzen yes....she had zero responsiblities...no money issue...no job issues...so therefore..she could be herself.
MPL029 7 months ago 2
She had such a beautiful smile. So disarming.
phospheratu 8 months ago
she was so beautiful ... in every way, i think
kbalynch 9 months ago
@kbalynch such a lovely voice, too! this is the best i've heard her sound, in all of the footage of her that i've seen.
kakadoodoo3000 8 months ago
She was wonderful.
tropicparasit 9 months ago
She said I was having a nervous breakdown and should go to Atlantic City...
drasticmeasure2000 9 months ago
The beautiful Little Edie Beale.x
bumblebert 9 months ago
@coldbluerain Actually, there ARE occasionally Hurricanes that reach Long Island. There was one in 1938 which caused quite a few deaths. Even immense homes simply dissolved beneath their occupants (from the flooding).
megaswenson 9 months ago
She was amazing and she stood by her Mother..
ellaiine4 10 months ago
@macksfischer There are moments when she smiles and looks twenty something, incredible. I'm living in France and even the twenty somethings are fifty. The gaiety. True, I love to ham it up like that and people just think you are mad. It is so sad the world, people are so scared of anything different.
MsMesem 10 months ago
this is priceless! ..love it
marckjelmann1 1 year ago
She was really beautiful in her youth and even into her 50s and as we can see from this clip she was lovely and charming and full of character. Her mother may have suffocated her and sent her slightly mad but she made it anyway through the documentary. She is loved and remembered as she might have been if her career had taken off and she had become a star in the conventional way in her youth.
jawdust3 1 year ago 3
Priceless !!!
rkaasm 1 year ago
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How could you not fall in Love with her..Her Spirits were alway high...I would have Loved to spend the day with them..
ellaiine4 1 year ago
How could you not fall in Love with her..Her Spirits were alway high...I would have Loved to spend the day with them..
ellaiine4 1 year ago 2
she sure knows how to rock a scarf...or two!!! lol Edie you're a legend
urbanangel13 1 year ago
after your little brother...so funny...she had quite a thing for David M & wasn't shy about saying/singing...quite a gal!! :)
urbanangel13 1 year ago
Big Edie, transfer her to the southern U.S., change the accent, and she could have been MY mother. My mother also ended her life as an eccentric in unusual surroundings.She also had many cats, and some dogs. She wasn't mentally ill per se, but she was definitely "different", she had always been that way; unusual, literate, and totally unique. I love both the Edies to death. I would loved to have been Little Edie's friend, she was delightful.
krallstello 1 year ago
Cadillac Kimberly is on Youtube now. Hysterical.
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
Love you Edie...Happy Birthday eve! We'll all dress in our Edie best and drink a toast in your honor tomorrow!!!
Rubiglo 1 year ago
May she rest in peace
maple1212 1 year ago
No she was nuts
3909clancy 1 year ago
I think it would have been great to have spent time with these women.
ElMa1788 1 year ago 7
What? Her mind is completely gone. Her mother was more rational, sane, and intelligent than Little Edie.
filmmakerjohnb 1 year ago
She reminds me of my grandmother. =]
xBananaSurferx 1 year ago
She may have been in her fifties but she was just a girl on the inside...so playful.
cymbeli 1 year ago 4
As fascinated as I've always been with Jacqueline Onassis, Little Edie is infinitely more interesting. I'd rather spend 5 minutes talking to Little Edie than 5 days talking to Jackie.
TayInTheWay 1 year ago 15
Much Love Little Edie.
rhbxyz 1 year ago 3
I saw the version with Drew Barrymore. She did a great interpretation of the real Edie. Her voice sounds almost exactly like the real one.
KnittinBlonde 1 year ago 2
she was seriously mentally ill, emotionally incapacitated and clearly suffering a great deal. people who are suffering don't walk around with a big sign that says "hey, I am in anguish!." but as long as it entertains you.
AnotherCompartment 1 year ago
So what if she was crazy? She was an extremely interesting woman with more personality in her little finger than any average woman you'd find nowadays...
dragonfaeries 1 year ago 3
Don't tell me a person who lives in garbage and uses a spare room in there house as a toilet.She was mentally ill.She actually seems as if she has bi polar
cbrun67176 1 year ago
Little Edie is so adorable.
Bridgejones08 1 year ago
I could watch her forever she was in her 50's how incredible are those legs! All natural!!! Xx
sezums 1 year ago 2
She was so beautiful! And her whole size was the best!
Tonsgard 1 year ago
Yes she wasn't foaming at the mouth insane but she had mental health issues.You don't love in the conditions they lived in
cbrun67176 1 year ago
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THIS ONE IS EVEN BETTER!
willlongbeach 1 year ago
this one is even BETTER!
willlongbeach 1 year ago
Eccentric is just another way of saying CRAZY. These women were SO SAD, especially Little Edie.
warriormami 1 year ago
I love her style,,,such an elegant woman.....they r not making any like that anymore,,,,love you little Edie,,,u r beautifullllllllllllllllllllllllllll
ainavlirim 1 year ago 4
She was CRAZY, what are you people talking about?
jeffallenCA 1 year ago
She had her problems, but she still had a lot to offer the world. Despite her issues, she found a way to live a happy life. Many, many fashion designers are inspired by her individual sense of fashion.
kraftymomma1979 1 year ago 3
What an incredible woman, she absolutely fascinates me, positive & creative & with the energy & life-force of someone half her age.
To be so imaginative, free-spirited & remarkably unrestrained considering where she lived, but then she never was one to conform or run with the crowd.
I love the way she improvises her song & her playfully flirtatious manner with the Maysles; to have such a childlike quality without being childish is an enchanting attribute for an adult.
Staunch but adorable.
ticklecreek 1 year ago 7
they lived in one of the most beautiful parts of the country, it looks so enchanting and magical there. but something in their existence cast a dark shadow over it, for them.
sherribailey75 2 years ago
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She needs to get out of Kansas if she wants to be in pictures. Besides, a twister is on the way.
Wadlyyardshark 2 years ago
Look at her legs, OMG what a beautiful woman. Look at the creative outfits she comes up with throughout the documentary. She was definitely ahead of her times. I love her sophistication and air of regal elegance. You never see that anymore.
atlast23 2 years ago 51
Interesting weather in this, looks like it is just about to storm. Run Edie Run!
JelloFarming 2 years ago
this was not at the documentary, right?
bulletproofisobel 2 years ago
@bulletproofisobel No, sadly. But it's in THE BEALES OF GREY GARDENS DVD.
MondoManiacs 2 years ago
I always love little Edie, but she is especially fabulous here!
ChrisH94114 2 years ago 7
Poor thing she was so stuck in time noone showed them how to step into reality.... this is the only life they knew................little edie seemed kinda wierd but fun...:))
skinpli 2 years ago 4
She actually had a very nice voice....just a little old fashion style.....Her Mother was jealous of her I believe.
keed48 2 years ago 5
COOL!!
Tashrox12345 2 years ago
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I'm willing to bet my paycheck she wasn't crazy. Betcha she was drunk.
Anglynn74 2 years ago
She certainly wasn't insane or an alcoholic, she was an eccentric, suppressed by a domineering mother who never gave her the opportunity to find her own way and flourish. It's such a tragic waste of a life never to realise one's potential. Little Edie would have been absolutely formidable, had she just been given the chance.
sleepypoodle 2 years ago 72
@sleepypoodle no, she was not formidable. if she was, she wouldn't have caved to her parents will at every juncture. she was crippled by her need for approval. this is precisely what makes her not formidable. many people have screwed up lives and parents who pressure them and abuse them. they get out and do what they want.
AnotherCompartment 1 year ago
@AnotherCompartment this is an imbecile comment. How dare you judge people?? you don't know how she was inside, you don't know if she had an emotional structure that would help her get thropugh life, you don't know how damaged she was inside, just because there are people who go through hell and somehow get ahead doesn't mean that all people have the same strength/opportunities, there is no standard to be met, we can't judge people just like that, it's stupid.
LaSerpentaCanta 1 year ago
@LaSerpentaCanta HEAR HERE! Wonderful comment to read. You tell it!
gray70 1 year ago
Resist the NWO ;)
deagla2 1 year ago
@AnotherCompartment They had very little money and no support from the community.. Of course she wouldn't think of abandoning her mother. I feel sorry for your mother.
MsMesem 10 months ago
I know I stepped on your little fantasy with a dose of reality. This is not endearing. It is tragic. She was mentally ill and so was her mother. Other people here agree with me. If she was so bent on taking care of her dear mother, they would not have lived in sloth and she would have held a job. You are a sycophant.
AnotherCompartment 10 months ago
@AnotherCompartment Go take your labels and ....I'm with macksfischer
MsMesem 10 months ago
@AnotherCompartment
Curious why this socialite would need to hold a job..
Though she lived in "sloth" she had plenty of money.
This woman and her mother are lovely people, and believe it or not, there are people STILL like this. (who do not have mental illness.. they are just eccentric)
LinFungZhou 9 months ago
@sleepypoodle what a beautiful synopsis. Spot on! YOU ought to be in pictures, doing reviews!
shazzabelle2 1 year ago
@shazzabelle2 Gosh!...thank you very much :)
sleepypoodle 1 year ago
@sleepypoodle Her mother was a real problem, I'll agree.
1960Carolynn 11 months ago
@sleepypoodle i identify with her a lot. i missed my chances, too. she was so lovely.
kakadoodoo3000 8 months ago
@sleepypoodle Most eccentrics have mental illnesses......
MPL029 7 months ago
Isn't she just amazing!? I love her...and I love this doc...she had an absolutely amazing figure
u2ugly2nv 2 years ago 8
Absolutely unapologetic ham.....what an amazing character. I love this woman! Delicious in every way!
jscott1966 2 years ago 10
i love her, sometimes I wonder if she had been drinking because she sometimes seemed to have a hard time walking
hotsaucemmmm 2 years ago
She had very poor eyesight which must have affected her coordination a bit, but she never struck me as being drunk...a little intoxicated with life and so much energy but not enough means by which to channel it.
ticklecreek 1 year ago 9
she is amazing...!!
prigatdevisine 2 years ago 3
she still maintained GREAT LEGS!!
BabyTeela 2 years ago 12
She is completely gorgeous. What a flirt! I think she looks lovely.
"I don't know the other words, is my hat falling off" and singing about the brother! Too sweet.
jhjw28 2 years ago 6
Gorgeous legs.
CarlyIsAGangster 2 years ago 9
her legs and body are amazing for being in her late 50s... wow i wonder what she was liek when she was younger how did her mother keep her in
sesamestreetgang 2 years ago 6
Her mother used emotional blackmail mostly & undermined her confidence, forcing a deeply unhealthy dependance on her. Also because little Edie was impractical & a hopeless romantic with unrealistic aspirations about being a professional singer & dancer, she was financially dependant on her mother & lacked the means to support herself.
Her father had tried to encourage her to find secretarial work in New York city which she loathed & was therefore unreliable & virtually unemployable.
ticklecreek 1 year ago 6
Had this clip made it into the final cut I feel sure it would've become one of the focal scenes of the film, up there with "Tea for Two" and the "VMI Dance". As it is, this is one of my favorites of Edie's outfits. She looks fabulous.
KekoaOnorati 2 years ago 9
I am very disappointed, I rented "Grey Gardens" and this scene wasn't in it, among other scenes. Was this cut? Is this an extra?
musiknouvel 2 years ago
ti think its in 'The Beales of Grey Gardens' the follow up.
acrossthenorthernsea 2 years ago 2
she had a wonderful- simply wonderful giggle
HJCarlock 2 years ago 9
She's the best.
wendyorourke 2 years ago 7
She was such a charming flirt. The Maysles were very fortunate to have met and spent time with her.
L0nerMan 2 years ago 10
I absolutely loove dear Edie! Fabulous video! Thanks for posting! I wish they had an album of her singing!
allends612 2 years ago 7
Brilliant!! :-)
WoofManToronto 2 years ago 2
love those pearly shoes, they just glow and that profile at 1:46ish, classic
vansuite 2 years ago 3
She has a soothing grandma singing voice.
reminds me of those times where people would sing liek this
LatasianDevil 2 years ago 4
i could also...so compelling...she could imagine herself as a 19-year-old indefinitely as long as the Maysles were around.
ladymia69 2 years ago 2
I could watch this over and over....divine really.
Dantyankle 2 years ago 3
It would have been so great if the Maysles had had a third, emotionally thwarted but peculiarly creative brother. Then Little E could've found freedom and romance once Muthah passed on and Grey Gardens was sold. She was mad about the Maysles..." Absolootly the most CLEVAH boys the MOST clevah !..."
giannireb68 2 years ago
these doco makers were happy to exploit mental illness, without really paying thetrue cost for it. But the are all too quick to reove the doco of you tube. which was free but now not.. Money before love . what a surprise Amererica.
octogarden72 2 years ago
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zappazowie 2 years ago
She didn't want the documentary to end. She had a good time with them following her around with that camera. It's beautifully tragic. We were never supposed to see this woman and yet I can't get enough of her. It's like riding by a traffic accident, you slow down to look even though you should maintain the flow of traffic for the person behind you. You are in awe' you feel for this woman but it's nothing you can do but feel for her. Yet it's kind of sweet in a crazy sort of way. A rare treat
foggakande102 2 years ago 4
well said!
cutetoiletwater 2 years ago
doesn't she know that your hose are never supposed to be darker than your shoes!!
cwecub 2 years ago
She can do no wrong.
=)
megaaatron 2 years ago 4
..Of course you shouldn't wear hose that are darker than your shoes. Or wear a skirt upside down. Or on your head. And you probably shouldn't feed the wildlife living in your attic. Or cook in a pot that one of your cats slept in. But we are dealing with--um--a DIFFERENT set of priorities here, maybe...?
babeuf09 2 years ago 7
"supposed" obviously you don't get edie at all
xxxbabe08 2 years ago 2
We were being facetious,xxxbabe08. The Fabulous Beale Gals And The House That Ate Them are my daily bread.
babeuf09 2 years ago
you know, they can get you in east hampton for wearing red shoes on a thursday, and all that sort of thing.
bittetotoro 2 years ago 4
I love how she giggles like a little girl with a crush on a boy (which she had on David the brother). So cute.
SirenaVentura 2 years ago 7
She's so amazingly watchable. I'm always split between feeling really sad for her and feeling really inspired by her. Either way she's impressive and charming.
suzylux 2 years ago 6
Great figure - beautiful legs. Pity the mind started to stray. Kind if sad - but nice to have their memories for us.
Lillyvon36 2 years ago
She's sorry about the makeup, she hasnt been able to find it...I bet there is one glam raccoon running around Grey Gardens.
AtlantisAllre 2 years ago 7
what a girl. the little coquette !!!
fogitup20 2 years ago 3
I LOVE HER.....
henrylongisland77 2 years ago 4
I adore little Edie.
rickbecraft 2 years ago 2
at 0:42 she says "im after your brother, im never going to give up" she looks and sounds like a psycho lol. My kinda girl!
flyboy1c 2 years ago
Shes such a ham haha.
flyboy1c 2 years ago 2
|perfectly terrible" lol, haha
aliciabiatch 2 years ago
"she said i was having a nervous break down, i should go to atlantic city. Im not that broken down yet!"
haha!
Crunkberger 2 years ago
she is so gorgeous! i love her spirit!
webby686 2 years ago 2
This is astounding. I fall more deeply in love with this woman with every viewing. She is Helen,Pandora, Terpsichore and Queen Dido all wrapped into one Faberge egg-like masterpiece !! Unlike Eugene, I really WOULD have made an honest woman out of you, dearest Edie ! I would've scooped you up and carried you off to NYC,Milan,Venice wherever your heart desired !! As long as you brought those costumes. The old woman would've had to stay behind tho. Big E could be a real pain in the ass.
babeuf09 2 years ago 2
I absolutly love this part of the documentary. Little Edie just exudes happiness. She is just like a giggly flirty little girl. Its absolutly adorable. And I agree.....she has an absolutly fabulous body for a woman her age. Her boobs are so perky for being braless. Just adorable. Miss you Edie.
sugarcheryl 2 years ago
Half the women in my family are like that. very interesting family dinner parties.
mydogsnameisemilie 2 years ago 2
I just saw the 2009 movie...it was amazing
dakarus 2 years ago 3
FLIRTY EDIE !!!!
lexarquette 2 years ago
Sing it, Edie, sing it. Sing that song, baby. She's got a great body for a 60 year old.
gray70 2 years ago
She was only 56 here.
ticklecreek 1 year ago 4
'she said i was having a nervous breakdown and i should go to atlantic city.
i'm not THAT broken down, yet'
LOVE IT
rhymeandreasoning 2 years ago 2
I love her clothes! She is so amazing. She makes me wish I lived in her era...
CojoneSordo 2 years ago 2
i m after your brother, i ll never give up...that's hot! EDIE
ilovestyling 2 years ago
These Women are fascinating!! Love thi documentary it's very compelling.
insaneonthemembrane 2 years ago
So how come Lil Edi didnt inherit anythng from her father? I am sure the brothers did-how could they not give her some?. Who was the beoch who got it all?
jomom 2 years ago
Her father Phelan Beale remarried and his wife got most of his estate, however he had left them an allowance which her brothers were trustees of but Buddy was accused by little Edie of mismanaging and even stealing from it.
Eventually the allowance ran out and they resorted to selling personal valuables piece by piece.
They received $5,000 each from the Maysles for the documentary but had no share in the profits.
Jackie Onassis paid about $35,000 to make the house habitable (but not for long)
ticklecreek 1 year ago 6
@ticklecreek Aristotle Onassis gave them the money :)
xxXXxPagexXXxx 1 month ago
@xxXXxPagexXXxx Mmm, wasn't he 'Mrs Bouvier' though? I'm pretty sure that she had a damn site more than $35,000 of her own in various bank accounts and investments. Besides, most married couples hopefully regard their assets as shared rather than "mine and yours"... although these days there seems to be a depressingly large increase in the creation of pre-nuptual agreements; before long the wedding vows will be changed to "until divorce do us part"
sleepypoodle 1 month ago
RIP LITTLE EdIE we will love you forever!!!!!
FoxZo83 2 years ago 4
and, her voice is loooovely.
ilovehellokitty92 2 years ago
is this real footage or is it like a proper film version?
ilovehellokitty92 2 years ago
real footage
lrgrjg 2 years ago
I LOVE EDIE.....
henrylongisland77 2 years ago
They ended up in this world caught between...trying to have dinner parties on paper plates...making high fashion out of tablecloths...very intellectual women with no resources...when you watch the documentary, you can close your eyes and you hear very social, refined, intellectual women but then you open your eyes and the pictures doesn't match..which is how I am sure they felt. they couldn't or didn't know how to to anything...it use to all be done for them.
dmo116 2 years ago 8
Most people ask how did they allow themselves to get like this...They lived in an era of servants, opulence...When girls went to school to learn oriental philosophies...to then come home, marry a richer man and spend your days planning menus and making small talk at your husband's dinners...But when the money runs out and there are no servants...you know how to make the menu but do not know how to cook...you know what a garden should look like but have no idea how to care for it.....
dmo116 2 years ago 11
i appreciate the crafted analysis..
quillber 2 years ago
You are spot on dmo...love these women!!
skidnarella 2 years ago
"You know she's nice, but she's a friend of my brothers - could make a life of trouble". (1.25).
doogle1001 2 years ago
i am so infatuated with this woman now... what has happened here? WHAT have the gods done?!
primatage 2 years ago 3
Omg.. I love herrrrrr
sammetrad06 2 years ago 2
I fall more and more in love with that woman all the time.
puddledub76 2 years ago 3
I love these clips. Their accent almost sounds English. Even though I love her, I dont think Christine Ebersole got the accent quite right.
fossegirl5678 2 years ago 3
At 1:33 she says, "I'm not that broken down yet". Edie always seems just on the verge of tears yet blissfully crazy at the same time. It's like a facinating train wreck i can't quit staring at.
jenjunebug 2 years ago 2
She's a hardcore case of arrested development, haha
pickypocky123 3 years ago
I love Little Edie. She wasn't crazy, but felt like she had no options. The Edies and the house didn't start out this way. The house became Big Edie's as her only asset after her husband divorced her. The unplumbed mystery is why she didn't move to smaller digs when it was still in good shape. They lacked a male relative to step in and do something (before Jackie did). It's an engaging story because of the mix of poor choices and stubborness, courage and creativity.
colorkitties 3 years ago
Big Edie refused to give up the house because of memories and because of what it symbolized. In the weird old traditions of grand families like the Bouviers, the property was a family "seat" and she was the "Lady of Grey Gardens". As long as that fiction remained intact, their "rank" and identity was maintained...even if they were broke with no servants or heat and racoons in the walls and attic. She couldnt be just another old lady in some smal,neat cottage ! She was a Bouvier dammit !!
giannireb68 3 years ago 7
what a beautiful, fun loving woman, great figure and personality galore. I love her.
kathy467 3 years ago
I've grown so fond of Edie, I feel she is an extended member of my family. She was exceedingly intelligent, charming, real, full of fun and flirtation. I regret that she was so "managed" by her mother, she didn't have the chance for a fuller life. It haunts me.
SuzyZ 3 years ago 4
SuzyZ, I feel exactly the same way. Her mother sure didn't do her any favors, but little Edie sure did stick by her, huh? I LOVE her!
TheAncientQueen 2 years ago 2
How about Nathan Lane ?
sgrroiii 3 years ago
Oh yes I can see Drew Barrymore playing her. She doesen't even have to do that much acting. ha ha.
criticalgal 3 years ago
Hail to the Edies, Bouvier Beale and Sedgwick...and to all aristocrats who unravel in that way that ONLY THEY CAN !!! Our pathologies are so insipid and middle class these days.
giannireb68 3 years ago 5
That little giggle was so cute. It made her such a lovely and entertaining individual. I love both Big and little Edie, may they rest in peace.
flproctor 3 years ago
I think that Little Edie was highly intelligent and it was hard for her to communicate on a level most people understand!
macrent2 3 years ago
When I first saw Grey Gardens in 2006 I was immediately attracted to the lifestyle they chose to live. Elite Socialites who decided to throw away the extravagance, and glitter to live the way they did. At first I felt sorry for little Edie, then as I watched the documentary several times I realized that this Co-dependant relationship was based more on fear, sloth, and agoraphobic attributes. Still I am attracted to little Edie in a way where I feel bad for her?? I wonder why??
phallystorm 3 years ago 4
Because she was trapped. Remember when she said she brought home a man and "Mother got rid of him in 15 minutes" - Then big Edith said, "I didn't want another man in my kitchen or her running off, I would have been all alone!"
flproctor 3 years ago
I find her absolutely mezmorizing.
bodes08 3 years ago 4