A new documentary, directed by Goran Hugo Olsson, sheds further light on Big Edie and Little Edie, with footage from 1972. By Glenn Kenny Relatives of the former first lady are suing over a portrait ...

John BarroisLeslie Castay is 'Little' Edie Beale , left, to Janet Shea's Edith Bouvier Beale in 'Grey Gardens' onstage now at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre. Much like the characters (real life and ...

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In 1975, filmmakers Albert and David Maysles brought their cameras into the crumbling, palatial estate of Edith Bouvier Beale (the aunt of Jackie Kennedy) and her daughter, Little Edie. There they ...

It was a far cry from her cousin Jacqueline’s Oscar de la Renta outfits and pillbox hats, but Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale had a style all her own. If by “style” you mean haphazard turbans and ...

NEW YORK — Far from the glamour of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, her eccentric aunt and cousin, former socialites who were both named Edith Beale, lived in squalor in Grey Gardens, a sprawling house in ...

In the catalogue of unlikely events, a cult success based on the true story of two pitiably delusional women, a mother and daughter living in utter squalor, is way up there near the top of the list.

In 1973, documentary filmmaking brothers Albert Maysles and David Maysles decide to change the focus of their latest project from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Onassis to her aunt and older cousin, ...

Jacqueline Kennedy’s eccentric older cousin, Edith Bouvier Beale, died in 2002, but her fashion sense, her unique personality and her drive to perform live on in the Broadway musical “Grey Gardens.” ...