[This story contains spoilers from the sixth episode of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, “Hats, Gloves and Effete Homosexuals.”]
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans is a reunion for Calista Flockhart and showrunner Jon Robin Baitz, who created Brothers & Sisters on which the actress starred during its five-season run. It was an instant yes, says Flockhart, when “Robbie” (as she calls him) and producer Ryan Murphy came to her with the role of Lee Radziwill in season two of the FX anthology — one of the coterie of New York City socialites with whom Truman Capote palled around (and later publicly fought) in the 1960s and ’70s.
Radziwell was perhaps America’s best-known little sister; she was four years younger than Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who always overshadowed Lee despite her own efforts to achieve fame as an actress. But without the trappings of the official title of First Lady, Radziwill was able to flourish socially and was well-connected with the literary,...
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans is a reunion for Calista Flockhart and showrunner Jon Robin Baitz, who created Brothers & Sisters on which the actress starred during its five-season run. It was an instant yes, says Flockhart, when “Robbie” (as she calls him) and producer Ryan Murphy came to her with the role of Lee Radziwill in season two of the FX anthology — one of the coterie of New York City socialites with whom Truman Capote palled around (and later publicly fought) in the 1960s and ’70s.
Radziwell was perhaps America’s best-known little sister; she was four years younger than Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who always overshadowed Lee despite her own efforts to achieve fame as an actress. But without the trappings of the official title of First Lady, Radziwill was able to flourish socially and was well-connected with the literary,...
- 2/29/2024
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: A film adaptation of the Jerry Torre memoir The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens is in the works by Unger Media. Torre’s story was detailed in the book co-authored by him and Tony Maietta released in 2018.
Torre was nicknamed “The Marble Faun” by Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale, better known as Big Edie and Little Edie and the aunt and cousin, respectively, of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. As a teen, Torre appeared in their 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens.
The forthcoming film, also titled The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens, will tell the story of a gay teenage runaway from Brooklyn framing Big Edie and Little Edie as the misguided guardian angels in his life—and beyond.
Leo Geter (Longmire) is penning the script and will also produce; Drew Droege and Unger Media CEO Jonathan Unger will executive produce. Torre is also involved creatively.
Torre was nicknamed “The Marble Faun” by Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale, better known as Big Edie and Little Edie and the aunt and cousin, respectively, of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. As a teen, Torre appeared in their 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens.
The forthcoming film, also titled The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens, will tell the story of a gay teenage runaway from Brooklyn framing Big Edie and Little Edie as the misguided guardian angels in his life—and beyond.
Leo Geter (Longmire) is penning the script and will also produce; Drew Droege and Unger Media CEO Jonathan Unger will executive produce. Torre is also involved creatively.
- 3/28/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
There are a few ways to think about Edith Bouvier Beale, the fallen ’30 debutante–turned–head-scarf-wearing aristocratic freak who became a cult figure in “Grey Gardens,” the 1975 Maysles brothers documentary that’s now regarded as a vérité classic. When you first see “Little Edie,” she comes off as someone who, if she didn’t exist, John Waters would have had to invent. Swanning around in her too-bright lipstick and Ocd kerchiefs (think Muslim head scarves designed by Coco Chanel), she’s a found-object character, a High Wasp fruitcake dropping breathy pensées that make her sound weirdly worldly and utterly around the bend. That’s why she’s a camp icon.
But how did she get that way? The astounding musical version of “Grey Gardens,” which premiered Off Broadway in 2006, dove deep into Edie’s past and came up with an interpretation of how, exactly, she wound up living with her ancient domineering mother,...
But how did she get that way? The astounding musical version of “Grey Gardens,” which premiered Off Broadway in 2006, dove deep into Edie’s past and came up with an interpretation of how, exactly, she wound up living with her ancient domineering mother,...
- 5/25/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
In a new film, previously unseen footage of Big and Little Edie reveals an added depth to what was previously explored in the acclaimed Maysles documentary
This summer, the East Hampton mansion Grey Gardens is 121 years old – exactly half the age of America itself. Its 28 rooms have welcomed the titans who’ve shaped the country: coal barons and newspaper titans and, most famously, the wildling relatives of Jackie Kennedy. Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale moved into Grey Gardens in 1924 and stayed there for over five decades. Outside, the United States was upended by massive cultural shifts: the Great Depression catapulting into the second world war; the civil rights protests and Haight-Ashbury fever sweating out its fury into disco decadence. Inside, wayward vines blocked out the sun – really, the world – as Big Edie and Little Edie gathered cats, fed raccoons and curled into themselves, abandoning the...
This summer, the East Hampton mansion Grey Gardens is 121 years old – exactly half the age of America itself. Its 28 rooms have welcomed the titans who’ve shaped the country: coal barons and newspaper titans and, most famously, the wildling relatives of Jackie Kennedy. Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale moved into Grey Gardens in 1924 and stayed there for over five decades. Outside, the United States was upended by massive cultural shifts: the Great Depression catapulting into the second world war; the civil rights protests and Haight-Ashbury fever sweating out its fury into disco decadence. Inside, wayward vines blocked out the sun – really, the world – as Big Edie and Little Edie gathered cats, fed raccoons and curled into themselves, abandoning the...
- 5/18/2018
- by Amy Nicholson
- The Guardian - Film News
Dogwoof selling international rights on feature about long-lost film project.
Sundance Selects has snapped up Us rights to Göran Hugo Olsson’s That Summer ahead of its international premiere in the Berlinale Panorama documentary sidebar tonight (Feb 16).
Dogwoof sells international rights to the feature about a long-lost film project that photographer Peter Beard initiated in 1972 with Lee Radziwill, the younger sister of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, to chronicle her childhood on Long Island.
When Albert and David Maysles joined the crew, the focus shifted to Radziwill’s cousin Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother Edith Ewing Bouvier – the inspiration for Grey Gardens, which the Maysles would shoot several years later.
That Summer premiered at Telluride Film Festival last autumn and is produced by Oscar-nominated Strong Island producer Joslyn Barnes of Louverture Films, as well as Tobias Janson of Story, Nejma Beard of Thunderbolt Ranch Productions and Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real.
Peter Beard, Andrea...
Sundance Selects has snapped up Us rights to Göran Hugo Olsson’s That Summer ahead of its international premiere in the Berlinale Panorama documentary sidebar tonight (Feb 16).
Dogwoof sells international rights to the feature about a long-lost film project that photographer Peter Beard initiated in 1972 with Lee Radziwill, the younger sister of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, to chronicle her childhood on Long Island.
When Albert and David Maysles joined the crew, the focus shifted to Radziwill’s cousin Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother Edith Ewing Bouvier – the inspiration for Grey Gardens, which the Maysles would shoot several years later.
That Summer premiered at Telluride Film Festival last autumn and is produced by Oscar-nominated Strong Island producer Joslyn Barnes of Louverture Films, as well as Tobias Janson of Story, Nejma Beard of Thunderbolt Ranch Productions and Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real.
Peter Beard, Andrea...
- 2/16/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Swedish director Göran Hugo Olsson is directing project with Sfi backing.
Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape) is working on feature documentary That Summer, which will include long-lost archive footage of the stars of the Maysles brothers’ 1975 doc Grey Gardens,
Olsson is reviving a project first initiated by artist Peter Beard, which chronicles his family of friends and creative collaborators in Montauk, Long Island in the 1970s.
Beard set up the project with Lee Radziwill, a relative of eccentric duo Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) and Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Eddie), who were depicted in Grey Gardens and its 2006 follow-up The Beales Of Grey Gardens, which featured previously unused footage shot by the Maysles.
Andy Warhol also features in That Summer, and shot some of the newly-unearthed footage, as did director Jonas Mekas, with additional cinematography by Albert Maysles and Vincent Fremont.
Olsson and Swedish production company Story have rights to use footage.
The film is...
Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape) is working on feature documentary That Summer, which will include long-lost archive footage of the stars of the Maysles brothers’ 1975 doc Grey Gardens,
Olsson is reviving a project first initiated by artist Peter Beard, which chronicles his family of friends and creative collaborators in Montauk, Long Island in the 1970s.
Beard set up the project with Lee Radziwill, a relative of eccentric duo Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) and Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Eddie), who were depicted in Grey Gardens and its 2006 follow-up The Beales Of Grey Gardens, which featured previously unused footage shot by the Maysles.
Andy Warhol also features in That Summer, and shot some of the newly-unearthed footage, as did director Jonas Mekas, with additional cinematography by Albert Maysles and Vincent Fremont.
Olsson and Swedish production company Story have rights to use footage.
The film is...
- 6/21/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Swedish director Göran Hugo Olsson is directing project with Sfi backing.
Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape) is working on feature documentary That Summer, which will include long-lost archive footage of the stars of the Maysles brothers’ 1975 doc Grey Gardens,
Olsson is reviving a project first initiated by artist Peter Beard, which chronicles his family of friends and creative collaborators in Montauk, Long Island in the 1970s.
Beard set up the project with Lee Radziwill, a relative of eccentric duo Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) and Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Eddie), who were depicted in Grey Gardens and...
Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape) is working on feature documentary That Summer, which will include long-lost archive footage of the stars of the Maysles brothers’ 1975 doc Grey Gardens,
Olsson is reviving a project first initiated by artist Peter Beard, which chronicles his family of friends and creative collaborators in Montauk, Long Island in the 1970s.
Beard set up the project with Lee Radziwill, a relative of eccentric duo Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) and Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Eddie), who were depicted in Grey Gardens and...
- 6/21/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Today in 2006, Grey Gardens opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where it ran for 307 performances. Grey Gardens is a musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, based on the 1975 documentary of the same title about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale 'Big Edie' and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale 'Little Edie' by Albert and David Maysles. The Beales were Jacqueline Kennedy's aunt and cousin, respectively. Set at Grey Gardens, the Bouviers' mansion in East Hampton, New York, the musical tracks the progression of the two women's lives from their original status as rich and socially polished aristocrats to their eventual largely isolated existence in a home overrun by cats and cited for repeated health code violations.
- 11/2/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Mary Louise Wilson has been a luminary force in the theatre world for nearly five decades. The veteran actor's performances have ranged from a Tony Award-winning portrayal of Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens to a Drama Desk Award-winning role as legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop, which she co-authored with Mark Hampton. But she hasn't limited her talents to the stage. Wilson's astonishing resume also features roles on Louis C.K.'s award-winning television show Louie, Amazon's recent hit Mozart in the Jungle, and the Academy Award nominated film Nebraska. The biting wit and brutal honesty that Wilson brings to her many outstanding performances is once again illuminated in her forthcoming memoir My First Hundred Years In Show Business Published by The Overlook Press Hardcover 28.95 Isbn 978-1-4683-1085-6 Publication Date July 13, 2015.
- 7/13/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Mary Louise Wilson has been a luminary force in the theatre world for nearly five decades. The veteran actor's performances have ranged from a Tony Award-winning portrayal of Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens to a Drama Desk Award-winning role as legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop, which she co-authored with Mark Hampton. But she hasn't limited her talents to the stage. Wilson's astonishing resume also features roles on Louis C.K.'s award-winning television show Louie, Amazon's recent hit Mozart in the Jungle, and the Academy Award nominated film Nebraska. The biting wit and brutal honesty that Wilson brings to her many outstanding performances is once again illuminated in her forthcoming memoir My First Hundred Years In Show Business Published by The Overlook Press Hardcover 28.95 Isbn 978-1-4683-1085-6 Publication Date July 13, 2015.
- 6/30/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Documentarian Albert Maysles in support of documentary White Gold in 2013 Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Documentary pioneer Albert Maysles has died at the age of 88.
The New York-based filmmaker is best known for the ground-breaking fly-on-the-wall documentaries he made with his brother David (who passed away in 1987), including Grey Gardens and Salesman.
The director - whose Harlem-based Maysles Documentary Center and Cinema continues to promote up-and-coming directors and who was frequently seen at film events in the city - became famous with his sibling for their "direct cinema" technique, which favoured intimate observation over more formal interview-style documentary techniques.
Grey Gardens, which profiled the reclusive socialites Edith Bouvier and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale, went on form the basis of the Broadway show of the same name, while the Maysles' profile of the Rolling Stones' American tour Gimme Shelter also earned them worldwide attention. Whether he was dealing with bible salesmen or...
The New York-based filmmaker is best known for the ground-breaking fly-on-the-wall documentaries he made with his brother David (who passed away in 1987), including Grey Gardens and Salesman.
The director - whose Harlem-based Maysles Documentary Center and Cinema continues to promote up-and-coming directors and who was frequently seen at film events in the city - became famous with his sibling for their "direct cinema" technique, which favoured intimate observation over more formal interview-style documentary techniques.
Grey Gardens, which profiled the reclusive socialites Edith Bouvier and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale, went on form the basis of the Broadway show of the same name, while the Maysles' profile of the Rolling Stones' American tour Gimme Shelter also earned them worldwide attention. Whether he was dealing with bible salesmen or...
- 3/6/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Today in 2006, Grey Gardens opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where it ran for 307 performances. Grey Gardens is a musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, based on the 1975 documentary of the same title about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale 'Big Edie' and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale 'Little Edie' by Albert and David Maysles. The Beales were Jacqueline Kennedy's aunt and cousin, respectively. Set at Grey Gardens, the Bouviers' mansion in East Hampton, New York, the musical tracks the progression of the two women's lives from their original status as rich and socially polished aristocrats to their eventual largely isolated existence in a home overrun by cats and cited for repeated health code violations.
- 11/2/2013
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2006, Grey Gardens opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where it ran for 307 performances. Grey Gardens is a musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, based on the 1975 documentary of the same title about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale Big Edie and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale Little Edie by Albert and David Maysles. The Beales were Jacqueline Kennedy's aunt and cousin, respectively. Set at Grey Gardens, the Bouviers' mansion in East Hampton, New York, the musical tracks the progression of the two women's lives from their original status as rich and socially polished aristocrats to their eventual largely isolated existence in a home overrun by cats and cited for repeated health code violations.
- 11/2/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
While you're enjoying Memorial Day Weekend, Indiewire has selected a number of films to help usher in the start of the summer vacation season for our latest curated Hulu Documentaries page. Watch all these docs for free now! This celebration of the beckoning call of summer begins with Bruce Brown's classic 1966 surfing film "The Endless Summer." Two men try to extend the season year-round by literally traveling around the world in the search of the perfect weather to keep surfing. Combined with a surfing music soundtrack, the popular film influenced countless imitators to go on similar journeys. For many New Yorkers seeking a summer getaway, the Hamptons are much more convenient than circumnavigating the planet. The location has been forever captured in the Maysles brothers' seminal 1975 portrait of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, "Grey Gardens," made with Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer. Thirty years later, previously unused.
- 5/27/2012
- by Basil Tsiokos
- Indiewire
Well we all knew this would happen. Back in February, when Criterion announced their epic digital streaming partnership with Hulu, they also quietly revealed that their streaming options on Netflix would be coming to an end over the course of the next year. While I haven’t been paying close attention to the Criterion Collection films that have been expiring since that announcement was made, I thought it would be helpful to all of you loyal Netflix subscribers to know that in about twelve days, 26 titles will be expiring on the 26th of May, 2011.
I’ve gone and linked to all of the titles below, so you can click on the cover art or the text, and be taken to their corresponding Netflix pages. While this isn’t everything that Criterion has to offer on Netflix, it is a nice chunk of really important films. If you don’t currently have a Netflix subscription,...
I’ve gone and linked to all of the titles below, so you can click on the cover art or the text, and be taken to their corresponding Netflix pages. While this isn’t everything that Criterion has to offer on Netflix, it is a nice chunk of really important films. If you don’t currently have a Netflix subscription,...
- 5/15/2011
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
In an ideal world, everyone will come to HBO’s new feature film Grey Gardens, starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange, having already seen the landmark 1975 documentary of the same name. But even if this is your first exposure to Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter “Little” Edie, you’ll come away besotted with the tragicomic tale of these two roses of American aristocracy who withered on the vine. (And then you’ll run out and immediately rent the doc.)
The film begins in 1975, with Edith (Lange) and Edie (Barrymore) sitting in their moldering East Hamptons manse Grey Gardens, watching an early cut of the documentary by Albert (Arye Gross) and David Maysles (Justin Louis) that would make them legends. Cut to 1936, when 18-year-old Edie is having cold feet on the night on her debutante ball at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
Edie wants to be a singer and an actress,...
The film begins in 1975, with Edith (Lange) and Edie (Barrymore) sitting in their moldering East Hamptons manse Grey Gardens, watching an early cut of the documentary by Albert (Arye Gross) and David Maysles (Justin Louis) that would make them legends. Cut to 1936, when 18-year-old Edie is having cold feet on the night on her debutante ball at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
Edie wants to be a singer and an actress,...
- 4/16/2009
- by michael
- The Backlot
Drew Barrymore "became" her character in new movie "Grey Gardens." The 34-year-old actress plays the young Edith Bouvier Beale - the eccentric cousin of former U.S. First Lady Jackie Kennedy - in the film, and was so determined to get the part Drew promised director Michael Sucsy she would live just like her character did.
She explained to America's Elle magazine: "I didn't want to come in there like a hungry freak. But I also felt every second counting. So - polite conversation, then he started looking through my binder, and I saw his demeanor change, actually noticing all the hard work I had put into it."
"I said, 'Look - I have all of this inside of me, and I promise you that I will change my face to be her. I will learn how to stop talking out of the side of my mouth. I will go...
She explained to America's Elle magazine: "I didn't want to come in there like a hungry freak. But I also felt every second counting. So - polite conversation, then he started looking through my binder, and I saw his demeanor change, actually noticing all the hard work I had put into it."
"I said, 'Look - I have all of this inside of me, and I promise you that I will change my face to be her. I will learn how to stop talking out of the side of my mouth. I will go...
- 4/8/2009
- icelebz.com
.My mother gave me a completely priceless life..-- .Little Edie. Beale, 1917-2002 Drew Barrymore "became" her character in the HBO movie 'Grey Gardens'. The 34-year-old actress plays the young Edith Bouvier Beale - the eccentric cousin of former Us First Lady Jackie Kennedy - in the film, and was so determined to get the part Drew promised director Michael Sucsy she would live just like her character did. She explained to America's Elle magazine: "I didn't want to come in there like a hungry freak. But I also felt every second counting. So - polite conversation, then he started looking through my binder, and I saw his demeanour change, actually noticing all the hard work I had...
- 4/8/2009
- Monsters and Critics
What happens when American royalty falls? Beck Center presents the Cleveland premiere of Grey Gardens, the three-time Tony Award-winning musical, in the Studio Theater February 27 through March 29. Based on the 1975 cult-documentary of the same name, Grey Gardens is the hilarious yet heartbreaking story of Jackie Kennedy?s delightfully eccentric aunt and cousin, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter ?Little? Edie. Show times are 8:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3:00 p.m. Sundays. There is no performance on Saturday, February 28.
- 2/21/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
What happens when American royalty falls? Beck Center presents the Cleveland premiere of Grey Gardens, the three-time Tony Award-winning musical, in the Studio Theater February 27 through March 29. Based on the 1975 cult-documentary of the same name, Grey Gardens is the hilarious yet heartbreaking story of Jackie Kennedy's delightfully eccentric aunt and cousin, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter "Little" Edie. Show times are 8:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3:00 p.m. Sundays. There is no performance on Saturday, February 28.
- 2/20/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
- Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role Predictions: The Five Noms: Carice van Houten in Valkyrie (MGM) Jessica Lange in Grey Gardens (HBO Films) Amy Ryan in Changeling (Universal Pictures)Amy Adams in Doubt (Miramax) Toni Collette in Towelhead (Warner Independent Pictures) Comments: I hate trying to predict the supporting categories this early in the game - mostly because of the uncertainty behind toplined cast and their importance to the film narratives: are they the lead or a supporting player? This year is Carice van Houten breakout year. The Dutch actress is taking some space in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies but it might be her role as the wife to Tom Cruise's Col. Claus von Stauffenberg in Valkyrie that might get heads turned into one direction. The last time (and only time) she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, she walked away with the award.
- 3/26/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
HBO Films has greenlighted Grey Gardens, a movie starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange that's based on the 1975 documentary about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' eccentric cousin and aunt.
The movie is based on the documentary by Albert and David Maysles. It follows the relationship between the mother-daughter duo of Big Edie (Lange) and Little Edie Beale (Barrymore), who spent most of their lives in a decaying mansion on New York's Long Island.
The project was originally announced as a feature film in early 2006, though HBO Films was not involved at the time.
Along with Barrymore and Lange, other original auspices on board are commercials helmer Michael Sucsy, who is directing and wrote the script with Patricia Rozema (This Might Be Good), and executive producers Rachael Horovitz (Little Black Book) and Lucy Barzun Donnelly (The Go-Getter). David Coatsworth (HBO's John Adams) is producing.
It's yet to be determined if the movie will be released theatrically before it airs on HBO.
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale made national headlines in 1971 when the Suffolk County Health Department raided their dilapidated East Hampton, N.Y., mansion -- named Grey Gardens -- and found more than 50 cats, raccoons, fleas, piles of garbage, human and cat excrement and no heat or running water.
The movie is based on the documentary by Albert and David Maysles. It follows the relationship between the mother-daughter duo of Big Edie (Lange) and Little Edie Beale (Barrymore), who spent most of their lives in a decaying mansion on New York's Long Island.
The project was originally announced as a feature film in early 2006, though HBO Films was not involved at the time.
Along with Barrymore and Lange, other original auspices on board are commercials helmer Michael Sucsy, who is directing and wrote the script with Patricia Rozema (This Might Be Good), and executive producers Rachael Horovitz (Little Black Book) and Lucy Barzun Donnelly (The Go-Getter). David Coatsworth (HBO's John Adams) is producing.
It's yet to be determined if the movie will be released theatrically before it airs on HBO.
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale made national headlines in 1971 when the Suffolk County Health Department raided their dilapidated East Hampton, N.Y., mansion -- named Grey Gardens -- and found more than 50 cats, raccoons, fleas, piles of garbage, human and cat excrement and no heat or running water.
- 9/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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