@@carliebeau5329 Yes, of course. And, she did get a taste of happiness after her mother died, in the final 20+ years of her life. But, if she’d been alive & still in her prime (which for her continued until her 50s & beyond) as reality star/ social media influencer nowadays she would’ve enjoyed being a major star!
5:23..."I think Mr, Torre thinks that.........I think that he thinks that we're................fast." What a complex, confusing, intricately woven beautiful creature Little Edie was. I'll never get her out of my head.
@@taraalan1131 The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens is the name of Jerry Torres book during his time there as a teenager and care taker/Friend of little Edie
I thought that was pretty hateful for the mother to insult her daughter like that. The only family member who put her life on the back burner to take care of her. Poor Edie.
IMO, Big Edie was a narcissistic lunatic. Glad Little Edie had some happier years after she left Grey Gardens. The slide into squalor can be sooo short when mental and physical ill-health and poverty come to stay. Abandoned by family for the most part. Heartbreaking.
I think the cause of this is that their relationship (when Little Edie was a young adult) was more like sisters ( Big E being the older sister and Little E, youngest) and not mother-daughter. When Big Edie needed a caregiver, Little E couldn't abandon her. Due to the culture she comes from and the relationship she had with her mother she was forced to be her mother's caregiver; even if that means storing yourself away with your elderly mother in a decaying home, no money, isolated, etc. It's an impossible situation to be in when they are the parent and you are the child.
For sure, she's an entertainer 24/7. She was always on. I can't believe she is close to 60. She was a sun lover who had no Botox, plastic surgery or any kind cosmetic work done to her. A true beauty.
So am I. That was the best ending for her. After New York, she moved to Florida and spent her days swimming and her nights in a gay bar where she had many fans.
I think people who are afraid to understand are doubly afraid to just be themselves. Big Edie and Little Edie represent rugged individualism. Sadly, many people would rather die than have their real selves revealed.
@@vaderstar If you meant in what respect was my comment? That was so long ago now that I'm not sure, lol. I think I meant that she's dressed like Janis Joplin or Madonna or Cindi Lauper, you know what I mean? Ahead of that time.
Poor Little Edy, she didn't have a chance being tied to her mother. She was really an attractive woman and could have had a good life if she weren't emotionally blackmailed by her mother
It's not just that. It's not just her mother that created issues in her life. I think she was probably on the spectrum, so that was the main issue. The high level of anxiety, the difficult of communication or at understand how communication works and many other things that are in common with people on the spectrum. Also her mum looked on the spectrum but not in the same level of the daughter. She was lovely anyway. 💓
Yeah, plus the ONLY guy Little Edie wanted to marry, was that Italian count, which her Mother 'ran off in 15 minutes"!!!!! All because Big Edie (selfishly) didn't want to be alone.
@@mikekitchens9658 thats another thought. And or brothers. Not one mention of them and grandfather just cuts them off because they dress differently omg the shame
A beautiful, refined, proper English dialect that’s sadly extinct and wished this film was part of school curriculum,,, would open young eyes to American culture, history & significant ways people lived, spoke, communicated and what can happen when your cut off from rest of the world and forever stunted in the by gone days. Of all the ways progression and innovation has changed our world,,,, I miss most how people relied on one another, had conversations, had to leave the house to buy everything that wasn’t in Sears or Montgomery Wards catalog, was the peak of great living in human history!!
artwaif lol. and the fact that she was concerned that his sneeze had spread germs all over the place. I mean, really, could that place get any nastier? SMH
Perhaps she meant both, in the doc she stated how her daughter started developing lines on her face and that it was time to come back. That's narcissistic abuse. Her mother was a life thief! Thank God when she passed, Little Edie was able to live her dream back in NYC
Furthermore, you can see the angst when Big Edie calls Edie ugly. truth be told, she was NOT ugly. Even here at 56 without any cosmetic enhancements, she was still a very attractive woman. Both of them were beautiful women too when they were younger.
i love how this guy hangs out with two crazy old ladies. sure they're adorable, but i never thought a teenage boy would be patient enough to spend time with them.
I hung out with the older ladies that lived next to my father. He was too busy. They were a treasure trove of stories, wisdom and personality, just like Edith and Edie. They were called Mrs. Hill and Sally and they were fantastic. People should value older people more.
Or like, like, like ! Did you ever notice how many people today use the word “like”, alllll tooo much in sentences. Like IS a great and positive word, “but” surely NOT a word to use after every word, “like” you know what I mean ! Lol.
@@guyincognito741 Bed Bradlee and Sally Quinn restored Grey Gardens back to being a center of Hamptons social life. In February 2017, the property was listed for $19,995,000 by the most recent owner, writer Sally Quinn, who bought the property with her late husband (and onetime Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee) in 1979. Now (2021) occupied by designer, Liz Lange and her husband Jeff (they have two children)
I have a friend who is six months older than I (we are both fifty-five), and he looks young enough to be my son. Naturally auburn hair, clear eyes and the skin of a fourteen-year old. He drinks gin likes it's going out of style and hasn't eaten fresh vegetables or a piece of fruit in decades, and he's gorgeous. Some people are just blessed that way.
William Salters- Ha! My sister and I know this backwards and forward..My sister and I watch the Boxset of the 2 films by the Maysles! I never get tired of it..Be well,
Jessica Lange was so great during the party scene, when she sang and Barrymore had joined her during their duet softshoe dance number. Barrymore was fine. She was a bit much at times. But Jessica Lange shined during the song and dance number. She was obviously the natural dancer out of the two. Barrymore just kind of stumbled along.
@@musicaltheatergeek79 Lange deserved all three awards. Her performance as Big Edie was so much better than Barrymore 's Little Edie. Also I wished we could have seen more of Jeanne Tripplehorn. Her Jackie Kennedy Onassis was on point.
Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange did one hell of a fantastic job in the remake. My God, they completely transformed themselves into these characters... On another note, Lil Edie's mattress... Jesus...
I think this film shows just how different and individual some people are. The majority of people are too concerned by conforming and the desire to fit in or be judged, these women chose to isolate themselves because they loved the location (particularly Big Edie) but detested the snobbish, shallow elitism of most of the locals and didn't care to mix with them.
Jerry Torre gave an interview for the podcast Everything is Stories, which i how I came to learn about Grey Gardens. His story is every bit as haunting as the Beales'. Sad, beautiful, fascinating people.
Jerry was a homeless runaway teen, if I am correct. He made a living by doing yard work and gardening. He ended up staying at Grey Gardens for a while during the filming on and off to help the Beale woman out, like go Grocery shopping and give them company. He is only seen briefly in the film and didn't talk much. Edie named him' The Marble Faun' which is still his nickname to this very day. He also has his own website dedicated to the Edies.
@@ursousa is this the marble faun himself? I just adore you Jerry for not judging these women & accepting them for themselves when even their own family didn't.
What ever happened to Jerry? I love listening to Little Edie talk. She still carried the 30's & 40's era in her way of talking & thinking. Plus, for a sun worshiper & ice cream lover, she looked amazing at 56! She would have fit right in with today's world. She could have even started her own fashion line if she wanted to. They were the last of a great era that was cast aside, but thanks to the Maysles brothers, they were respectably recognized, validated & will never be forgotten. I would have liked to have known them. ♥️
I love the bond between them. If they were around today they could have made a fortune with their film, or even in form of a reality show. The women could have made mint from EBay selling some of that old furniture or heirlooms which I'm sure some we're Antiques. Little Edie could have easily sold some of her fashion creations online with some help in setting things up. Little Edie is wonderful I can see why so many people relate to and adore her. I think she just got sort of stuck in a time warp mentally where her life was filled with more activities and she had dreams. Does anyone know how old Little Edie was when she came back ho e to live with her mother?
i think her wiki page said she was 35 and starting to lose her hair by then. I think her mom's selfish for not selling the house so they can live better elsewhere, and give her daughter a chance at life instead of keeping her there, getting old , taking care of her.
Even though Little Edie couldn't do what she wanted with her life as she dreamed, at least this film got her name out, and now she has that fanbase she wanted. Even if it's a cult-fanbase, it's still more than she had before the film.
Oh How beautiful these two are inside and out. What bravery. The reason why big Edie wanted little Edie to come home was because she couldnt support her anymore and YES she needed her to help take care of her. “ Life is very difficult” but “You know kitty’s”.
I'm thinking: What did they eat/drink? How often did they go to dentists/doctors if they were recluses? Where did they bathe? Where's the laundry room? They survived but seems an awful existence to me. Little Edie is a lovable doll, tho.😊
i love edie,she made and payed the most for her time,life,aristrocrasy is the definition of responsibility PAA!!... her ma is a mean old lady,who took her daughters life away from her...she didnt stand a chance of a life living there with mother!!
***** aaw that is so lovly..i dont get her mum at all..i wud never take my childs life,i want my chilren to do,go be anywhere,and fill ther potential,mostly to b HAPPY!
Little did Big Edie & Little Edie know that Jerry is gay & would be quite popular in the Bathhouses of New York shortly after this was filmed.🤦♀️😆 Jerry (last name Torre) recently wrote a book about his time w/ the Beale's called The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens. It's a great read for anyone interested in the story of Grey Gardens. ♥
Lil Edie was gorgeous and SO full of life! For people that haven't been through it...the mental criticism and emotional abuse daily from your very own mother, the one who is supposed to love you like no other on this earth,...can be very debilitating. It will make you doubt your own worth.
Edie says at one point Jerry's family is Rich, but she hints that the problem is they want to control him and he basically wasn't having it, so he stayed w the Beales, but his family or brother was coming to pick him up because they didn't want him just wandering around. It was nice of Lil Edie and Big Edie to take him in. IMO I wonder what his problem was at home w his family?
Jana Murph perhaps they were expecting him to marry and he didn’t even want to breach the subject of his sexuality, especially if his parents were fairly wealthy. They brought up in the film something about a particular girl who he was involved with who loved him and he clearly was not about it
He ran away from home because he was being sexually abused. He was in brooklyn and went to south Hampton bc he had an uncle that worked for the families in that area and stayed with him getting jobs maintaining the homes in the neighborhood. He stated that he was out every night at the gay bars when they shot the film despite big Edie thinking he was into girls. He is cab driver in New York and also a sculptor.
Little Edie was beautiful. She looks timeless because you can't see her hair (I know she had alopecia). Hairstyles put a time stamp on women. These two are mesmerizing.
Omg her mother Edith is so mean, cAlling her daughter ugly because she is wipped on a little boy. That's wrong that old lady emotionally abused her, and verbally abused her. She was not ugly at all, and she kept bring up her age all the time cAlling her old and saying stuff like " Edie you're getting up there now" like what's up with all the ageism stuff, I think she was jealous of her daughter because she was vibrant and young looking and can walk and move around and she hated that. That mother was a miserable old lady. Poor little Edie always at the end of her mother's tyraids and anger of jealousy. She knew that Edie was smart enough to make it big in this world and do something great and she was jealous and would emotionally hurt her and put her down and make her feel worthless and guilt her into staying. Its sad to see the bombardment of put downs that she endured.
Little Edie was so beautiful and I loved the way she spoke, it's so sad she didn't have a man at that stage..she had a lovely little figure for her age I watched this whole doc last night and it is very sad at times to see how they lived, this was after the house was cleaned up though wasn't it? so was the house worse before? Big Edie was very funny, the documentary was better then the film, the real people were far more interesting then the Hollywood version
May 2019: To: Jon Runnfeldt, the AUTHOR of this video: THANK YOU, SO MUCH for this video. I cannot tell you how many times that I have viewed it, IT IS GREAT. Honestly, God bless you because I have 'shared' it to others and I'm sure THEY have gotten joy out of this. BUT, TRULY: This is the best video compilation ever, especially of Jerry Torre too -- and, again, God bless you, Jon! --gv xxoo
@@miriamhavard7621 yes, yes, absolutely- they were “first” cousins, no less. You can definitely see a resemblance in little Edie and Jackie Kennedy (full lips, and other similarities)
I love the dinner they're eating! What is that? Lettuce and tomato?? But seriously, they are both engaging to watch and little Edie is not stupid. She is highly intelligent but it is quite sad to see the situation, There is no doubt that there are mental illnesses going on between them. People don't live in squalor like that without issues going on. What I don't understand is why the brothers did nothing to help to get them out of there. I could not imagine letting my mom live like that
I think the mother didn't sale the house. Because she was selfish. She should of sold it and helped her daughter get on her own--she very different but yet very real and refreshing.adore her,but see the mother has being--take care of me till I die, than don't need you anymore.sad
Little Edie calling her own father "Mr Beale" & Big Edie calling her own husband "Mr Beale" is super cringe. I do love the way they talk though.❤ So glad I found this gem.
Edie was beautiful - inside and out. Big Edie was an interesting character, but awfully cruel and manipulative toward her daughter. She'd be so much more easier to sympathize with if she treated her with the respect she deserved for sticking by her mother's side.
back then youth more often had swirling attractive just budding vibes.. they weren't vaxxed to death & they didn't walk around all day with their necks bent over looking at cell phones. the energy flowed.
@Gertrudia09 In the movie version with lang and barrymore...when little eddie's dad died.. he left them with a small trust to live on...but it wasn't enough to support the estate of grey gardens...it took A fortune to keep up that 23 room mansion...and the sons wanted their mother and sister to sell Grey Gardens and move to a smaller live quarters and she would have still lived very comfortable from her profits from grey gardens and on the trust her husband left her....but she refuse to sell.
Poor little Edie was decades ahead of her time. She'd have done SO well today. She'd have been a huge star.
She is a huge star. Not would have been
The Turtle A sensation. Social media would crash everyday with her posts going viral. This woman was fire.
Grip It I agree. It’s such a shame that she’s not around to see all of her adoring fans.
I agree...its 2020 February an I'm still watching💃👠💄
@@carliebeau5329 Yes, of course. And, she did get a taste of happiness after her mother died, in the final 20+ years of her life. But, if she’d been alive & still in her prime (which for her continued until her 50s & beyond) as reality star/ social media influencer nowadays she would’ve enjoyed being a major star!
i wish people still talked like these women.
Yes! And still referred to “luncheon” 🌹
I cant get enough of them
the transatlantic accent is glorious.
It’s beautiful
It reminds me of my Great Aunt from Boston.
Big Edie made me laugh when Jerry sneezed and she was going on about being unsanitary, when
The cat was shiting behind the portrait 😂
I know, I know, Too funny. 🤣
They’re great though for sure. I’m obsessed ! Lol
She pulls the paper towels from her back lmao
@@Larsen3306 me too, the film with Drew Barrymore is very good
@@DylanRomanov 😂
At least someone's using it 🤓
She has a fantastic figure for 56! And a very youthful face.
Carlsbad - Yes, it was all her dancing energy that kept her figure so good.
And swimming @@Countess88
What wonderful women... they can be little girls, old ladies, and completely insane all at the same time.
They're magic.
Aren't they just x
5:23..."I think Mr, Torre thinks that.........I think that he thinks that we're................fast." What a complex, confusing, intricately woven beautiful creature Little Edie was. I'll never get her out of my head.
@Jim Elliott OH Jim!! That's wonderful, I was wondering what became of him. I must read the book!!
@@kkittycatkat1990 Do you have the title of the book?
@@taraalan1131 The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens is the name of Jerry Torres book during his time there as a teenager and care taker/Friend of little Edie
I thought that was pretty hateful for the mother to insult her daughter like that. The only family member who put her life on the back burner to take care of her. Poor Edie.
Big Edie was the classic narcissist mother. I’m realizing that now that I’m older.
IMO, Big Edie was a narcissistic lunatic. Glad Little Edie had some happier years after she left Grey Gardens. The slide into squalor can be sooo short when mental and physical ill-health and poverty come to stay. Abandoned by family for the most part. Heartbreaking.
I think the cause of this is that their relationship (when Little Edie was a young adult) was more like sisters ( Big E being the older sister and Little E, youngest) and not mother-daughter. When Big Edie needed a caregiver, Little E couldn't abandon her. Due to the culture she comes from and the relationship she had with her mother she was forced to be her mother's caregiver; even if that means storing yourself away with your elderly mother in a decaying home, no money, isolated, etc. It's an impossible situation to be in when they are the parent and you are the child.
For sure, she's an entertainer 24/7. She was always on. I can't believe she is close to 60. She was a sun lover who had no Botox, plastic surgery or any kind cosmetic work done to her. A true beauty.
She died in like 2002 or something
Maybe her secret was ice cream !!! 🍧🍨🍦
Yeah she looks amazing!
Bid Edie was soooo jealous of her daughters beauty, creativeness, & energy
She also didn’t have the stress of having to work, or raise children
Wasn't little Edie so beautiful at 56 years of age?
Tima - 56 isn't exactly ANCIENT!!!!
Still very young
I think she’s almost 58 here actually.
Damn, her endless dancing energy kept her beautiful figure.
@jayda jones it’s always nice to pass judgement on others, makes us feel that much better about ourselves. Ughhhh
Jerry was a God send to the ladies.
I wonder what became of him. 🤔
Actually, no. He wasn't into the ladies at all.
I’m glad she lived her last years out well she sold the house and used to perform in a small venue and she had an apartment so good for her
So am I. That was the best ending for her. After New York, she moved to Florida and spent her days swimming and her nights in a gay bar where she had many fans.
@@asbisishe always said she wanted to live somewhere warm ❤
@@bmindful1888 And how she deserved it after all those cold, cold winters at Grey Gardens!
I think people who are afraid to understand are doubly afraid to just be themselves. Big Edie and Little Edie represent rugged individualism. Sadly, many people would rather die than have their real selves revealed.
holy hell I'm hooked on this shit!
Me too. I don´t know how to get out of it!
Me too!!!
Look at what she's wearing. Years ahead of
her time.
SnowWalker I love what she's wherein.
@@vaderstar If you meant in what respect was my comment? That was so long ago now that I'm not sure, lol. I think I meant that she's dressed like Janis Joplin or Madonna or Cindi Lauper, you know what I mean? Ahead of that time.
Poor Little Edy, she didn't have a chance being tied to her mother. She was really an attractive woman and could have had a good life if she weren't emotionally blackmailed by her mother
It's not just that. It's not just her mother that created issues in her life.
I think she was probably on the spectrum, so that was the main issue.
The high level of anxiety, the difficult of communication or at understand how communication works and many other things that are in common with people on the spectrum.
Also her mum looked on the spectrum but not in the same level of the daughter.
She was lovely anyway. 💓
I think there had been some kind of abuse when they were younger by her dad that's my opinion
@@mikekitchens9658 She was also schizophrenic from a young age .
Yeah, plus the ONLY guy Little Edie wanted to marry, was that Italian count, which her Mother 'ran off in 15 minutes"!!!!! All because Big Edie (selfishly) didn't want to be alone.
@@mikekitchens9658 thats another thought. And or brothers. Not one mention of them and grandfather just cuts them off because they dress differently omg the shame
Little Edie had the best laugh!! I Just love her!!
A beautiful, refined, proper English dialect that’s sadly extinct and wished this film was part of school curriculum,,, would open young eyes to American culture, history & significant ways people lived, spoke, communicated and what can happen when your cut off from rest of the world and forever stunted in the by gone days.
Of all the ways progression and innovation has changed our world,,,,
I miss most how people relied on one another, had conversations, had to leave the house to buy everything that wasn’t in Sears or Montgomery Wards catalog, was the peak of great living in human history!!
I am astounded by the Beals ability to find beauty, and appreciate it, in the world they have created and occupy-facinating and incredibly moving.
Jerry is so beautiful, he does look an angel from an Italian Renaissance painting
Briney Foster yes
Big Edie always complimenting Jerry makes me giggle 😂
Little Edie is so bright and childlike. I love the gentle ways that the Maysels and Gerry interact with her.
I love it when Big Edie pulls the roll of paper towels out from behind her back and offers them to Jerry.
artwaif lol. and the fact that she was concerned that his sneeze had spread germs all over the place. I mean, really, could that place get any nastier? SMH
When I hear someone say something like this I think, "Yup, we're friends now."
Edith didn't literally mean her daughter had an ugly face. It's an expression, because she was making a bad face, not smiling.
Perhaps she meant both, in the doc she stated how her daughter started developing lines on her face and that it was time to come back. That's narcissistic abuse. Her mother was a life thief! Thank God when she passed, Little Edie was able to live her dream back in NYC
She was a nasty narcissist and she indeed was very cruel to Little Edie
Furthermore, you can see the angst when Big Edie calls Edie ugly. truth be told, she was NOT ugly. Even here at 56 without any cosmetic enhancements, she was still a very attractive woman. Both of them were beautiful women too when they were younger.
This is like the original reality TV.
i love how this guy hangs out with two crazy old ladies. sure they're adorable, but i never thought a teenage boy would be patient enough to spend time with them.
KagurasSacrifice
Or lay on the bed full of fleas. And eat their weird food.
I read that he ran away from home. He found acceptance here.
The two ladies made Jerry feel comfortable.
I hung out with the older ladies that lived next to my father. He was too busy. They were a treasure trove of stories, wisdom and personality, just like Edith and Edie. They were called Mrs. Hill and Sally and they were fantastic. People should value older people more.
Seriously, Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange did a supreme job at playing these two in the movie... 🥰👍❤️👏
Great film
Absolutely love hearing them speak “proper English”. No um’s, like or ya’s or acronyms. OMG!
Or like, like, like ! Did you ever notice how many people today use the word “like”, alllll tooo much in sentences.
Like IS a great and positive word, “but” surely NOT a word to use after every word, “like” you know what I mean ! Lol.
because their hearts and heads were connected. people today don't even have throats. gone.
they never utter the now tired assed "folks" word
love the way she talks, like she thinks she is still some socialite or something, i could listen to her for hours
PhantomHT1320 The land alone that the house sat on was worth a fortune. In a way they were still wealthy.
@@guyincognito741 Bed Bradlee and Sally Quinn restored Grey Gardens back to being a center of Hamptons social life. In February 2017, the property was listed for $19,995,000 by the most recent owner, writer Sally Quinn, who bought the property with her late husband (and onetime Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee) in 1979.
Now (2021) occupied by designer, Liz Lange and her husband Jeff (they have two children)
She was a socialite❤
@1:23 Jerry looked so innocent. He really did have a beautiful face
he could have passed for a Kennedy with all that dark curly hair and good looks
I thought his skin looked like he was using meth.
He had great bone structure
The signs of age don't always erase the beauty of youth. Edie and her mother, a perfect example.
I have a friend who is six months older than I (we are both fifty-five), and he looks young enough to be my son. Naturally auburn hair, clear eyes and the skin of a fourteen-year old. He drinks gin likes it's going out of style and hasn't eaten fresh vegetables or a piece of fruit in decades, and he's gorgeous. Some people are just blessed that way.
We're gonna have all that awful gang in here today Bill, Gerry, Lois, Margarie. Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh! Eh, eh eh. Listen, I feel fine.
William Salters 🤗🤗😂
William Salters I love her crazy ways!! She is something special in my eyes..lol
William Salters this is how I feel every day hahaha
William Salters- Ha! My sister and I know this backwards and forward..My sister and I watch the Boxset of the 2 films by the Maysles! I never get tired of it..Be well,
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Edie looked pretty young for her age here I think,..
Good genes I say. Both look beautiful in their age
She looks amazing
Totally. And today this wouldnt even be concidered that old
She was a swimmer. Kept her in good shape!
@@simonaivancic528 Yes !
Drew Barrymore did an INCREDIBLE job playing Edie in the movie version. Just incredibly accurate!
She won the Golden Globe and SAG for it; Lange won the Emmy.
Jessica Lange was so great during the party scene, when she sang and Barrymore had joined her during their duet softshoe dance number. Barrymore was fine. She was a bit much at times. But Jessica Lange shined during the song and dance number. She was obviously the natural dancer out of the two. Barrymore just kind of stumbled along.
@@musicaltheatergeek79 Lange deserved all three awards. Her performance as Big Edie was so much better than Barrymore 's Little Edie. Also I wished we could have seen more of Jeanne Tripplehorn. Her Jackie Kennedy Onassis was on point.
@@melissagueydan6294 Barrymore was just not right imo. Her look was ok, but to me she fell way short of portraying the real Little Edie.
Incredible for sure!! Jessica Lange, too. I think I’ve seen the film, and documentaries a thousand times! Lol
I'd love to watch all the unseen footage!
“Do you want a handkerchief?” Big Edie pulls out roll of crumbled paper towels..... wow that Jerry was a cutie.
"Listen i feel FINE." love it.
Little Edie is so awesome. We all have a little LITTLE EVIE in us.
I love these ladies !
So sad they are no longer with us.
Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange did one hell of a fantastic job in the remake. My God, they completely transformed themselves into these characters... On another note, Lil Edie's mattress... Jesus...
Big Edie's was even more horrid you just can't see in these clips.
I think this film shows just how different and individual some people are.
The majority of people are too concerned by conforming and the desire to fit in or be judged, these women chose to isolate themselves because they loved the location (particularly Big Edie) but detested the snobbish, shallow elitism of most of the locals and didn't care to mix with them.
I agree with them 100%! ☺️
Jerry Torre gave an interview for the podcast Everything is Stories, which i how I came to learn about Grey Gardens. His story is every bit as haunting as the Beales'. Sad, beautiful, fascinating people.
Love anything that shows these women, my favorite mother and daughter
Jerry was a homeless runaway teen, if I am correct. He made a living by doing yard work and gardening. He ended up staying at Grey Gardens for a while during the filming on and off to help the Beale woman out, like go Grocery shopping and give them company. He is only seen briefly in the film and didn't talk much. Edie named him' The Marble Faun' which is still his nickname to this very day. He also has his own website dedicated to the Edies.
Where can you find more information on Jerry? Would like to see how he looks now and what he's been up to 😊
Brenda Torres : Just google him. I just started following him on Twitter
He has a facebook page .
@@ursousa is this the marble faun himself? I just adore you Jerry for not judging these women & accepting them for themselves when even their own family didn't.
What ever happened to Jerry? I love listening to Little Edie talk. She still carried the 30's & 40's era in her way of talking & thinking. Plus, for a sun worshiper & ice cream lover, she looked amazing at 56! She would have fit right in with today's world. She could have even started her own fashion line if she wanted to. They were the last of a great era that was cast aside, but thanks to the Maysles brothers, they were respectably recognized, validated & will never be forgotten. I would have liked to have known them. ♥️
They were lovely ladies, so sad the dad and brothers abandoned them.
I love the bond between them. If they were around today they could have made a fortune with their film, or even in form of a reality show. The women could have made mint from EBay selling some of that old furniture or heirlooms which I'm sure some we're Antiques. Little Edie could have easily sold some of her fashion creations online with some help in setting things up. Little Edie is wonderful I can see why so many people relate to and adore her. I think she just got sort of stuck in a time warp mentally where her life was filled with more activities and she had dreams. Does anyone know how old Little Edie was when she came back ho e to live with her mother?
i think her wiki page said she was 35 and starting to lose her hair by then. I think her mom's selfish for not selling the house so they can live better elsewhere, and give her daughter a chance at life instead of keeping her there, getting old , taking care of her.
I've watched this a THOUSAND times! God bless Jon Runnfeldt for doing this video! --gv
Even though Little Edie couldn't do what she wanted with her life as she dreamed, at least this film got her name out, and now she has that fanbase she wanted. Even if it's a cult-fanbase, it's still more than she had before the film.
Oh How beautiful these two are inside and out. What bravery. The reason why big Edie wanted little Edie to come home was because she couldnt support her anymore and YES she needed her to help take care of her. “ Life is very difficult” but “You know kitty’s”.
Little Edie was quite the coquette! 😚
Love how she put s her hands on her hips way up high. Love her
Hey Al, we have to live in Venice or Milan - little Edie said. She's such a child at heart.
I love this woman...both of them have charmed me. Little Edie forever ❤️
One of my favorite scenes!
I love what Little Edie's wearing at 5:03
the Medici were a very very very very VERY, wealthy, upstanding, and important family throughout Italian history
THEY ARE LOST IN TIME.
I'm thinking: What did they eat/drink? How often did they go to dentists/doctors if they were recluses? Where did they bathe? Where's the laundry room?
They survived but seems an awful existence to me.
Little Edie is a lovable doll, tho.😊
It's fascinating to watch the old docs...if you know the whole history b4 they got to this point.
BTW, Drew did an excellent job
Great Movie !!! You can see the love Mrs. Beale has for Jerry.
Her energy just precedes her. Amazing! I bet she lived a hell of a life when finally settling down in Florida. I bet she was very popular.
I adore the Edies' so very much! I wish Little Edie knew how much she is still loved today!!
Melinda Lawley
She was so much fun!! I understand why many men feel in love with her!
Jerry Torre seemed like a sweet guy
i love edie,she made and payed the most for her time,life,aristrocrasy is the definition of responsibility PAA!!... her ma is a mean old lady,who took her daughters life away from her...she didnt stand a chance of a life living there with mother!!
***** aaw that is so lovly..i dont get her mum at all..i wud never take my childs life,i want my chilren to do,go be anywhere,and fill ther potential,mostly to b HAPPY!
Mee Cream she was obviously far to attached to her mother
Aristrio is a Greek word meaning the best.
I think her mother was just trying to protect her. She knew she couldn't sing or dance or even take care of herself out in the real world.
Little did Big Edie & Little Edie know that Jerry is gay & would be quite popular in the Bathhouses of New York shortly after this was filmed.🤦♀️😆
Jerry (last name Torre) recently wrote a book about his time w/ the Beale's called The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens. It's a great read for anyone interested in the story of Grey Gardens. ♥
Lil Edie was gorgeous and SO full of life! For people that haven't been through it...the mental criticism and emotional abuse daily from your very own mother, the one who is supposed to love you like no other on this earth,...can be very debilitating. It will make you doubt your own worth.
MamaTthaOG Yep. And her father wasn’t much help.
It saddens me to think they are gone now. I remember back in the 70s when this hit the media. I've been fascinated since.
Edie says at one point Jerry's family is Rich, but she hints that the problem is they want to control him and he basically wasn't having it, so he stayed w the Beales, but his family or brother was coming to pick him up because they didn't want him just wandering around. It was nice of Lil Edie and Big Edie to take him in. IMO I wonder what his problem was at home w his family?
Perhaps because back then homosexuality was not as accepting as today
Jana Murph perhaps they were expecting him to marry and he didn’t even want to breach the subject of his sexuality, especially if his parents were fairly wealthy. They brought up in the film something about a particular girl who he was involved with who loved him and he clearly was not about it
Believe he is gay
He ran away from home because he was being sexually abused. He was in brooklyn and went to south Hampton bc he had an uncle that worked for the families in that area and stayed with him getting jobs maintaining the homes in the neighborhood. He stated that he was out every night at the gay bars when they shot the film despite big Edie thinking he was into girls. He is cab driver in New York and also a sculptor.
You forgot to mention 'scarves to lose in an ocean of foliage, birdcages to hang, fires to extinguish'...I love these women!
I would HATE to live like that!!!! It's just ALL so SAD!!!!
Germs lol lol.Jerry was so cute and sweet. I felt bad for Jerry
this film always reminds me to clean up my house. a bit too familiar i if you know what i mean?
At one time,no running water! Did they have an outhouse or a well? Lots of stuff on them on CZcams.
Same here hahaha
jaddy540 how did she wash all those scarfs ... no washing machine,
@@jaddy540 yessss, loads of stuff on the Beales, here on CZcams ☺️
Little Edie was beautiful. She looks timeless because you can't see her hair (I know she had alopecia). Hairstyles put a time stamp on women. These two are mesmerizing.
February 2020 still watching💃
October 2020, discovered this last week and can't watch anything else. Just fascinated, obsessed really! 💜
Little Edie looks like a whole lot of fun to be around 💞
I need to do a movie on Little Edie life after Big Edie💖
I love to watch this just right before, rewatching the Documentary Now episode.
Omg her mother Edith is so mean, cAlling her daughter ugly because she is wipped on a little boy. That's wrong that old lady emotionally abused her, and verbally abused her. She was not ugly at all, and she kept bring up her age all the time cAlling her old and saying stuff like " Edie you're getting up there now" like what's up with all the ageism stuff, I think she was jealous of her daughter because she was vibrant and young looking and can walk and move around and she hated that. That mother was a miserable old lady. Poor little Edie always at the end of her mother's tyraids and anger of jealousy. She knew that Edie was smart enough to make it big in this world and do something great and she was jealous and would emotionally hurt her and put her down and make her feel worthless and guilt her into staying. Its sad to see the bombardment of put downs that she endured.
@@thelightinthedark1689 Big Edie reminds me of my mother!
I really like them both. I think little Edie would have gone far if she did the audition.
*Tirades 😉
some mothers can be extremely jealous
IT's possible Jerry's family DID think the Beales were "too fast". Two odd women like that...they'd naturally worry about their handsome son.
Well Edie is a riot.
When I first watched this doc all those years ago, I didn't know she wore the scarf to hide her baldness.
Little Edie was so beautiful and I loved the way she spoke, it's so sad she didn't have a man at that stage..she had a lovely little figure for her age
I watched this whole doc last night and it is very sad at times to see how they lived, this was after the house was cleaned up though wasn't it? so was the house worse before?
Big Edie was very funny, the documentary was better then the film, the real people were far more interesting then the Hollywood version
She was crushing on Al and Mother was crushing on poor Jerry. Lol
May 2019: To: Jon Runnfeldt, the AUTHOR of this video: THANK YOU, SO MUCH for this video. I cannot tell you how many times that I have viewed it, IT IS GREAT. Honestly, God bless you because I have 'shared' it to others and I'm sure THEY have gotten joy out of this. BUT, TRULY: This is the best video compilation ever, especially of Jerry Torre too -- and, again, God bless you, Jon! --gv xxoo
"I think Mr. Torre thinks -- I think he thinks that we're....FAST...." 😁😎
I think it’s so funny that big Edie was so obviously in love with Jerry , he was a beautiful young man.
@u2ugly2nv Are you KIDDING? She would have her own tv show, which would be more popular than the Kardashians, hands down!
Her voice sounds a lot like Jackie Kennedy.
because they both have the same south hampton accent.
they're cousins.
anastasia46
I thought it was East Hampton 🤔
@@miriamhavard7621 yes, yes, absolutely- they were “first” cousins, no less. You can definitely see a resemblance in little Edie and Jackie Kennedy (full lips, and other similarities)
I love the dinner they're eating! What is that? Lettuce and tomato?? But seriously, they are both engaging to watch and little Edie is not stupid. She is highly intelligent but it is quite sad to see the situation, There is no doubt that there are mental illnesses going on between them. People don't live in squalor like that without issues going on. What I don't understand is why the brothers did nothing to help to get them out of there. I could not imagine letting my mom live like that
I think the mother didn't sale the house. Because she was selfish. She should of sold it and helped her daughter get on her own--she very different but yet very real and refreshing.adore her,but see the mother has being--take care of me till I die, than don't need you anymore.sad
JAGG KOUT Most people are selfish, especially family.
Little Edie calling her own father "Mr Beale" & Big Edie calling her own husband "Mr Beale" is super cringe. I do love the way they talk though.❤ So glad I found this gem.
Awwww I love them ❤❤❤❤❤
Edie was beautiful - inside and out. Big Edie was an interesting character, but awfully cruel and manipulative toward her daughter. She'd be so much more easier to sympathize with if she treated her with the respect she deserved for sticking by her mother's side.
back then youth more often had swirling attractive just budding vibes.. they weren't vaxxed to death & they didn't walk around all day with their necks bent over looking at cell phones. the energy flowed.
Thay are so real I just loved them thay make me happy thay were good ppl 💖
@Gertrudia09
In the movie version with lang and barrymore...when little eddie's dad died.. he left them with a small trust to live on...but it wasn't enough to support the estate of grey gardens...it took A fortune to keep up that 23 room mansion...and the sons wanted their mother and sister to sell Grey Gardens and move to a smaller live quarters and she would have still lived very comfortable from her profits from grey gardens and on the trust her husband left her....but she refuse to sell.
Big edie reminds me of my grandma so much. lol
Big Eddie is so mean to little Eddie lol
Edie
what lovley beautiful women xxx
She was such a beauty So cute.