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Grey Gardens Cover Image Video Video

Grey Gardens [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Portrait Films, inc., presents ; a Maysles Films Inc. production ; a film by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer and Susan Froemke.

Maysles, David. (Director, Producer, Cinematographer). Maysles, Albert. (Director, Producer, Cinematographer). Hovde, Ellen. (Director). Meyer, Muffie. (Director). Froemke, Susan. (Director, Producer). Beale, Edith Bouvier, (Actor). Beale, Edie, 1917-2002 (Actor). Maysles Films. (Producer). Home Vision (Firm) (Distributor). Edith Bouvier Beale, Edie Beale. (Cast).

Summary:

Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0780024303
  • Physical Description: 1 DVD-video (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, 2001, c1976.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1976.
Special features: audio commentary by filmmakers Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, and Susan Froemke ; excerpts from recorded interview with Little Edie Beale by Kathryn G. Graham for Interview magazine (1976) ; video interviews with fashion designers Todd Olham and John Bartlett on the influence of Grey Gardens ; behind-the-scenes photographs ; trailers ; filmographies.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Filmed by Albert Maysles and David Maysles; edited by Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Susan Froemke.
Participant or Performer Note:
Edith Bouvier Beale, Edie Beale.
System Details Note:
DVD ; 1.33:1 aspect ratio ; Dolby digital mono.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Copy 1 is licensed for: home, library, ILL.
Copy 1 restrictions: no classroom use.
Copy 2 is licensed for: home, classroom, library, ILL.
Language Note:
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

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Subject: Beale, Edith Bouvier, d. 1977.
Beale, Edie, 1917-2002.
Mothers and daughters > New York (State) > East Hampton > Biography.
Recluses > New York (State) > East Hampton > Biography.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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Emily Carr University of Art + Design CT275 .B435 G7 2001 (Text) 30220294 Video Volume hold Available -
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