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Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary by the direction/cinematography/editing team of Albert Maysles , David Maysles , Susan Froemke , Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer .
The film tells the story of the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and their every day life at Grey Gardens, a decrepit 28 room mansion located in East Hampton, New York.
Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother (also named Edith , hereafter Little Edie and Big Edie, respectively) lived in Grey Gardens together in a state of almost total isolation and squalor for over 20 years. In 1972, their living conditions were exposed via an article in the National Enquirer and a series of raids by the Suffolk County Health Department.
Embarassed cousin Onassis convinced her husband Aristotle to pay for a cleaning and partial repair job on the house. It is during the restoration that Grey Gardens was made.
The house was purchased in 1979 by former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and his wife. According to a 2003 article in Town & Country Magazine , the building and grounds have been completely restored.
As of this writing, Grey Gardens is available on DVD via the Criterion Collection.
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