Honestly I've read a lot about these two and I think it's both sad and interesting. They only had each other yet they were both so lonely. For little Edie to be so beautiful and losing her hair must have been devastating. I think they were wonderfully fascinating horrific how they lived. However I think they were the very "real" them in the doc. Can't they just be two loving yet lonely women without people saying little Edie would have been better with a woman. You talk as if they were fictiona
We can only assume that the one man Edie might have wanted to marry was the already “married man”. We also know that Big Edie put a stop to anyone who might have courted Little Edie once she moved home from NYC.
Far more women would be able to deal with that vibrant personality than men. If you listen, it sounds like Big Edie was trying to say that "Aunt Mary" was a lesbian. It is unclear whether Little Edie didn’t get married because she didn’t want to (she says in the movie that she never wanted to and then said that she missed out on getting married). Big Edie has the nerve to ask why she “didn’t marry the man she wanted to, like I did.” Wow.
Interesting at how skeptical she is about men and them being "Only after one thing" and yet she talks about getting married several times throughout the movie. She says that she was only in love once (when she was 31), but that she had several (unconfirmed) marriage proposals. I think her breeding and status (and likely, the times) prevented her from thinking in any terms other than heterosexual terms... I think Little Edie would have done well with another woman, personally...
Big Eddie is not filthy or disgusting. She let her house get so bad because she was depressed about being alone. How about you try being all alone growing old and see what happens to you? Also when you're alone you can live however you want because no one can tell you what to do.
Edie is always lamenting not getting married but in reality I think she just didn't want to. I think she was beautiful and free spirited and when it got down to it she didn't want the constraints of marriage.
@Matze010787 Her brothers wouldn't send them any money because they wanted Mom to sell the house and the two women move somewhere else. I also wonder if they weren't just ticked off at their "eccentric" relatives and didn't want to be associated with them. Their cousin Lee Radziwill, who brought the Maysles to Grey Gardens originally, also didn't help the ladies out financially though she could have. Lee's sister Jackie Onassis finally helped when the story made the papers and caused scandal.
is this the documentary?
jmarovich007 1 day ago
Honestly I've read a lot about these two and I think it's both sad and interesting. They only had each other yet they were both so lonely. For little Edie to be so beautiful and losing her hair must have been devastating. I think they were wonderfully fascinating horrific how they lived. However I think they were the very "real" them in the doc. Can't they just be two loving yet lonely women without people saying little Edie would have been better with a woman. You talk as if they were fictiona
MsRooB1 1 month ago
We can only assume that the one man Edie might have wanted to marry was the already “married man”. We also know that Big Edie put a stop to anyone who might have courted Little Edie once she moved home from NYC.
trekgrrl3 1 month ago
Far more women would be able to deal with that vibrant personality than men. If you listen, it sounds like Big Edie was trying to say that "Aunt Mary" was a lesbian. It is unclear whether Little Edie didn’t get married because she didn’t want to (she says in the movie that she never wanted to and then said that she missed out on getting married). Big Edie has the nerve to ask why she “didn’t marry the man she wanted to, like I did.” Wow.
trekgrrl3 1 month ago
Interesting at how skeptical she is about men and them being "Only after one thing" and yet she talks about getting married several times throughout the movie. She says that she was only in love once (when she was 31), but that she had several (unconfirmed) marriage proposals. I think her breeding and status (and likely, the times) prevented her from thinking in any terms other than heterosexual terms... I think Little Edie would have done well with another woman, personally...
trekgrrl3 1 month ago
Big Eddie is not filthy or disgusting. She let her house get so bad because she was depressed about being alone. How about you try being all alone growing old and see what happens to you? Also when you're alone you can live however you want because no one can tell you what to do.
andrewisaliveaz 2 months ago
Icrecream with a knife
SandPet123 2 months ago
Big Edie was beautiful when she was younger, too bad these women lived like that.
bdamomma 4 months ago
Edie is always lamenting not getting married but in reality I think she just didn't want to. I think she was beautiful and free spirited and when it got down to it she didn't want the constraints of marriage.
ajzyeary 4 months ago
My God Big Eddie is so disgusting and filthy, how can one person cause so much destruction, it's unbelievable.
LaSerpentaCanta 5 months ago
Bad kitty looks embarrassed that he got caught doing his business behind the picture. Hehe.
squeapler 6 months ago
did the rest of the family didn't care about them? i mean she had two brothers.
Matze010787 8 months ago
@Matze010787 Her brothers wouldn't send them any money because they wanted Mom to sell the house and the two women move somewhere else. I also wonder if they weren't just ticked off at their "eccentric" relatives and didn't want to be associated with them. Their cousin Lee Radziwill, who brought the Maysles to Grey Gardens originally, also didn't help the ladies out financially though she could have. Lee's sister Jackie Onassis finally helped when the story made the papers and caused scandal.
squeapler 6 months ago