The Beales of Grey Gardens

Name: The Beales of Grey Gardens
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2006-07-21
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Albert Maysles

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7.2/10

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Documentary

Utilizing hours of unseen archival footage, The Beales is a new take on the women of Grey Gardens.Utilizing hours of unseen archival footage, The Beales is a new take on the women of Grey Gardens.Utilizing hours of unseen archival footage, The Beales is a new take on the women of Grey Gardens.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

1.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Early in the film there is a conversation between Little Edie and the Maysles brothers in which they speculate on who might play the two Edies in a dramatized movie version of their lives. Little Edie says she doesn't want any actress to play her. Off screen, one of the Maysles brothers suggests Ethel Barrymore for the role of Big Edie. Ethel Barrymore was the great-aunt of actress 'Drew Barrymore', who ultimately played Little Edie in the 2009 dramatized movie Grey Gardens (2009).

Quotes
Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: I went to Mass up until the time I was 28 years old!
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: That's how she got so fat, not getting up on Sunday to go to Mass.
Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Oh! What a whopper!
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: It keeps you very thin!
Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: I'm not going to church to keep thin! I'm going to go because I love the Lord!

Connections
Follows Grey Gardens (1975)

Soundtracks
You Oughta Be in Pictures
Music by Dana Suesse
Lyrics by Edward Heyman
Published by Warner Bros., Inc.
Performed by Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale

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Featured review

8/10

Love this independent gray

The 75-year film focused on the relationship between mother and daughter and themselves, and this one focused more on their relationship with their surroundings, more showing their friends and even interacting with the director. It is further supplemented with content about swimming, Catholicism, costumes and constellations, and Mrs. Bell mentioned poetry.

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