Grey Gardens

Selected by the Documentary Branch. 
Free for Museum Members.

Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter "Little Edie," two relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy, were living in a dilapidated mansion in East Hampton, New York, when they became the subject of this one-of-a-kind documentary from directors David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer. The combination of the Beales’ indelible personalities, the evocative setting, and the film’s high-wire mixture of dark humor and pathos has made this picture a classic, inspiring an HBO movie (with Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as the Beales) and a Tony-winning musical.