Return to Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens as it is today.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Grey
• Gardens
• restored
• little
• big
• edie
• cruise

[rachelsthebomb]

I love this film so much and I love how much he cares for them. Everyone at the time saw them as an oddity where the brothers saw them as just very interesting people. I'm so glad we have all gotten to meet them as well. Thanks to the maysles brothers, the edie's will live on forever and that is what they would have wanted so I don't think they had been exploited. They both wanted to be famous.

[christopherstwin]

The decrepitness, of their home, was obviously, a subliminal reflection. Of both the "Edie's" years of broken dreams and untold memories.

[capi7al]

@christopherstwin all of those comas are unnecessary

[figgy709]

@squeapler

the documentary came out in 1975, but wasn't popular until 2009 when the movie was made. The Maysles didnt make any money until 2009, and both Edie's were already dead.

[BettyBarncoat]

The film maker says it himself - and most accurately, the women had fulfilled lives more so than most of the neighbors. I think I agree with him.

[LBraunhaus]

What a crime.

[WGBudd801]

what the hell did they do to the front porch? It has lost some of the nice architechtural details (the rounded arches at the tops of the columns) I prefer the way it was and think the portrayal in the film of how they envisioned it originally is MUCH more tasteful than how the current owners has muddled it up- at least they saved it I guess-

[thesearemy2cats]

Thanks! Wow so great!

[squeapler]

I'm a bit uncomfortable with this given that the Maysles got so much attention and probably, over the years, revenue from this documentary and yet didn't cut the Beales in on a share of the profits. I know the Beales were paid a flat fee for their participation that was pretty generous, and it's likely that the documentary was not expected to get all the attention that it later did, but it does feel like those women were exploited. Even if they didn't FEEL exploited and liked the attention.

[4021971]

Never get bored with this movie. It is so real and so heart breaking. These two women were lovely and I only wish that I'd known them.

[girl4camera]

I totally agree that broken dreams etc caused their so called 'strange ways' ... it's sad

[simplenametag]

@kneecoal777 The reason the son's didn't pay is because they were trying to force their sister and mother out of the house so they could move them into something more livable. Big Edie refused to leave and little Edie wouldn't leave if her mother was still alone in the house.