New “Grey Gardens” Documentary to air on PBS Tonite, December 23
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The documentary film”Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway,” airs nationwide Dec. 23 on PBS-TV on the Emmy Award-winning program “Independent Lens.”
It was no secret in the tony East Hamptons enclave that the two reclusive women living together in gothic squalor, with dozens of cats and the occasional raccoon, shared an intimate connection with one of the wealthiest and most celebrated women of her day.
But it wasn’t until documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles captured their story in the seminal 1975 cult classic Grey Gardens that the rest of the world discovered the truth: the elderly recluse and her eccentric, spinster daughter, who performed for their own private muses amongst the cobwebs, were Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale-aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
Grey Gardens, the Tony award-winning Broadway musical, was developed three decades after the Maysles film debuted. The musical is the ultimate homage to the quirky and rebellious Beales. Edith Beale and her daughter Eddie turned their backs on their upbringing, public opinion and polite society to pursue their artistic dreams in the sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking and always sentimental fantasy world they shared together.
GREY GARDENS: From East Hampton to Broadway picks up the thread of this compelling mother-daughter story, weaving together clips from the Maysles brothers’ film with insightful interviews featuring Albert Maysles, societal and cultural commentators and the creators of the Broadway show. The documentary is a backstage pass into the creative process that brought one of America’s most haunted and haunting families from an original cult movie to the Great White Way. [via]
The original trailer
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