Grey Gardens Original Trailer

It makes me want to watch the movie again for the 30th time, so it's a good trailer.

I noticed that the phone number for the Paris theater was MU 8 - 2013. I thought the alphabetical exchange names had been abandoned by then. Maybe they kept theirs just as an affectation.

I forgot who bought the property after Sally Quinn, but I wonder if they still refer to it as Grey Gardens, or if they play down that association. If it was mine I'd shout it to the world. "Big Edie slept here!"

A beautiful, mysterious trailer to match the movie. The version of "Tea for Two" used here is the same recording Big Edie sings along to during the famous scene in the film. It's from an album of called "Musical Comedy Favorites" orchestrated by Andre Kostelanetz-- you can hear Little Edie mention his name toward the end of the song as Al Maysles zooms into Big Edie's portrait. I suppose that if they wanted to include that scene in the film they had to buy the rights for the entire album because you can also hear Kostelanetz's versions of "I See Your Face Before Me" and "Night and Day" over the course of the film. It's a great album (you can listen to it on Spotify)-- dreamy, romantic, refined, though it swings slightly, and very much a relic of a bygone era. I love that it was owned and enjoyed by the Beales and put to good use by the Maysles in the documentary.

I first saw it at the Castro Theatre (San Francisco), several years back. The first time I viewed it, I could not believe what I was watching. The second viewing at the same theatre had a few people dressing up as Little Edie.

It makes me want to curl up with a can of pâté (or whatever) and watch it again.

Little Edie was really beautiful when she was young. Did she ever marry or not?

I watched this on TCM this past Friday.

I'm glad I don't have daughters. Otherwise I'd force them to watch this non-stop until they got it through their heads of the importance of being self-sufficient and to never, ever rely on a man to get you through life.

Both Big Edie and Little Edie are Exhibit A and B of what happens to women who let men fuck them over, literally or figuratively.

R6- What do you expect from well brought up women from the early 20th century.

You shook my tits and you rattled my cunt

She could have been First Lady!

What is it about Grey Gardens that makes it so fascinating?

R10 Grey Gardens really is a Rorschach test. A person is equally likely to come away from a viewing inspired or repulsed, and the mindset and baggage you bring determine why.

Personally, I'm in the inspired camp. I love that these women believed in themselves enough to live by their own rules, societal approval be damned. It's a masterclass lesson in "Don't let the bastards get you down." I also appreciate their sense of fun and joie de vivre in the face of adversity, and there's nothing more fascinating to me than family dynamics, especially mother-daughter relationships.

GG is something of a tragedy because of Little Edie's feelings of disappointment, but I hope they were only reflective of that particular moment in time and didn't stay with her for the rest of her life. I don't buy the "fall from grace" angle that most people like to claim for the Beales-- Grey Gardens challenges the viewer to examine whether getting married, having children, and being rich is the only way to have a successful life.

For R1… Liz Lange, maternity fashion entrepreneur and niece of 1980s corporate raider Saul Steinberg, bought it from Sally

that blue breakfast room is so ugly. The blue epoxy floors are hideous. The gardens are amazing though^^

It's like Pink Flamingos with upper class characters.

[quote]Little Edie was really beautiful when she was young. Did she ever marry or not?

She just never found that Libran man.

Love it all- from the 2 Edie’s to Liz Lange.

Seems like a trailer created by the kitsch masters, the Kuchar Brothers, for fellow downtowners the Maysle brothers.

I don't mind the blue breakfast room however I detest any kind of display of dishes and serving ware in the open, where it can collect dust.

Too many colors,patterns and styles very chaotic.I liked Sally’s rendition but I did hear she was a total bitch?

I like this parody of GG:

Liz Lange has the decorating aesthetic of an antique store on Dixie Highway in WEST Palm Beach where she admits some of those tacky tchotchkes came from...

Jerry the neighbor kid turned out to be gay. He's still alive and has a book out called The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens.

r22 - Jerry has also been lying about his experiences - as he was only around during about 3 weeks of the filming but has embellished it to include imagined experiences with Jackie. He's kind of sad in person, and not very smart.

I was the raccoon and saw it all.

Lee Radziwill said little Edie graduated from Harvard but I don’t see that? Spence School and Miss Porter’s yes.

[quote]Jerry has also been lying about his experiences - as he was only around during about 3 weeks of the filming but has embellished it to include imagined experiences with Jackie. He's kind of sad in person, and not very smart.

How do you know he's lying? He was definitely around for longer than three weeks because the documentary was shot in the summertime and he was around to help the two Edie's with their [lack of] heat in the wintertime.

[quote]He was definitely around for longer than three weeks because the documentary was shot in the summertime

Check your dates, Jerry. Filming started September 12, 1973 and principal wrapped in January 1974 (Jerry was back in NY and there's a cut scene where he phoned before heading to a Canadian railroad job). Pickup filming continued through late Spring1975.

So datalonge is actually deleting posts now??

R28, I’m not seeing any missing posts. Someone you blocked perhaps? Check your blocked list if you don’t block people. Sometimes you can hit the wrong button if you’re browsing on your phone.

R1, apparently New York was one of the last places to drop the lettered exchanges. This Times article makes it sound like they were kept around for snobbery sake. The Paris theater was on one of the most desirable exchanges, MUrray, which stood for Murray Hill.

How do I even find my blocked list, R29? It's my own posts that aren't showing for me!

It’s at the bottom of your watched thread list under the tab “Ignored.”

Thank you, R31! Sure enough, I'd blocked myself somehow.

R32, don’t be embarrassed. It’s something that comes up every so often since the last sprucing up Muriel did.

I don't like the current interior design. The only rooms I like are the mudroom, flower roo, and study. The strongest echo of Little Edie is in the foyer, where she did her little dance once upon a time. That space is instantly recognizable.

Watching it again. I had forgotten the part where Big Edie basically worshipped her deadbeat sons and criticized her own daughter, Little Edie, for staying behind to actually help her.

I've never understood why so many gay men are obsessed with these two sad mentally ill women.

Because Little Edie was marvelous and persevered after her dreams despite great loss and turmoil. We can all identify with that.