Gray Gardens is a 1975 American documentary by Albert and David Maysles. The film illustrates the daily life of two closed, upscale women, a mother and daughter named Edith Beale, who live in poverty in Gray Gardens, a slum in 3 West End Road in the rich Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival but was not put into the main competition.
Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer also direct, and Susan Froemke is an associate producer. Movie editors are credited as Hovde (who also edit Gimme Shelter and Salesman ), Meyer and Froemke.
In 2010 the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the US National Film Registry as "culture, history, or aesthetically significant". In the 2014 Sight and Sound poll 2014, film critics picked the Gray Gardens ninth joint documentary of all time.
Video Grey Gardens
Cast
- Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale as Himself
- Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale as Himself
- Brooks Hyers as Himself - The Gardener
- Norman Vincent Peale as Himself (voice)
- Jack Helmuth as Himself - Guest Birthday (unidentified)
- Albert Maysles as Himself (unverified)
- David Maysles as Himself (unverified)
- Jerry Torre as Himself - Handyman (uncredited)
- Lois Wright as Himself - Guest Birthday (not identified)
Maps Grey Gardens
​​â € <â €
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (1895-1977), known as the "Big Edie", and his daughter Edith Bouvier Beale (1917-2002), known as "Little Edie", were aunt and first cousin, respectively, from former US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Both women live together in real Gray Gardens for decades with limited funds in increasing poverty and isolation.
The house was designed in 1897 by Joseph Greenleaf Thorpe and purchased in 1923 by "Big Edie" and her husband Phelan Beale. After Phelan left his wife, "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" lived there for over 50 years. The house is called Gray Gardens because of the color of the dunes, the walls of the cement gardens, and the sea fog.
Throughout the autumn of 1971 and up to 1972, their living conditions - their homes were lined with ticks, inhabited by many cats and raccoons, deprived of running water, and full of garbage and decay - were exposed as a result of an article in the National Enquirer and the cover story at New York Magazine after a series of inspections (called Beales "rioia") by the Suffolk County Health Department. With Beale women facing the evictions and demolitions of their homes, in the summer of 1972 Jacqueline Onassis and his sister Lee Radziwill provided the necessary funds to stabilize and repair the dilapidated house so that it would meet the village code.
Albert and David Maysles became interested in their story and got permission to film a documentary about women, released in 1976 for critical acclaim. Their direct cinema technique makes women tell their own stories.
Production
Albert and David Maysles initially came into contact with Beales after Lee Radziwill suggested that they make a documentary about his childhood in East Hampton and take him with them on the way to Gray Gardens. According to Ellen Hovde, the initial film was funded by Radziwill; When the Maysle family attempted to show early Beales recordings to convince him that a documentary about them was a better idea, Radzi would confiscate their belongings and withdraw funds from him.
The Maysles brothers shot and recorded all the recordings themselves. Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer received a joint directing credit for their editing work.
Soundtrack
- Edith Bouvier Beale - "Tea for Two" (music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Irving Caesar)
- Edith Bouvier Beale - "We Belong Together" from Music in the Air (lyrics and books by Oscar Hammerstein II and music by Jerome Kern)
- Edith Bouvier Beale - "You and Night and Music" (music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz)
- Edith Bouvier Beale - "Night and Day" (written by Cole Porter)
- Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale - "People Will Say We Love" (music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II)
- Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale - "Lili Marleen"
Aftermath
"Big Edie" died in 1977 and "Little Edie" sold the house in 1979 for $ 220,000 ($ 742,000 today) to Sally Quinn and her husband, the longtime editor of Washington Post Ben Bradlee, who promised to restore the dilapidated structure (sales agreement prohibits razing the house). "Little Edie" died in Florida in 2002 at the age of 84. A 2003 article in Town & amp; The Country confirms that Quinn and Bradlee completely restored the house and yard.
Jerry Torre, a juvenile drawer featured in a documentary (dubbed The Marble Faun by "Little Edie"), was sought after by filmmakers for many years thereafter, and was discovered by chance in 2005 driving a New York City taxi. A 2011 documentary, The Marble Faun of Gray Gardens by Jason Hay and Steve Pelizza, shows that he is a sculptor at The Art Students League of New York.
Lois Wright, one of two birthday party guests in the film, has hosted a public television show at East Hampton since the 1980s. He wrote a book about his experience at home with Beales.
In 2006, Maysles provided previously unreleased recordings for a special two-disc edition for the Criteria Collection. This includes a new feature titled The Beales of Gray Gardens , which also received limited theatrical release. In 2018, the prequel, Summer, shot in 1972 and used a 16mm recording, was released.
Adaptations
Musical theater
Documentaries, and women's stories, adapted as a complete musical, Gray Gardens , with a book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie. Starring Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson, the show premiered at Playwrights Horizons in New York City in February 2006. The musical reopened on Broadway in November 2006 at Walter Kerr Theater, and included in more than 25 "Best of 2006" lists in newspapers and magazine. Production won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design, and Ebersole and Wilson each won the Tony Awards for their performances. Broadway production closed on July 29, 2007. This is the first music on Broadway ever adapted from a documentary.
Movies of television
Gray Gardens , an HBO movie, starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as Edies, with Jeanne Tripplehorn as Jacqueline Kennedy, and Daniel Baldwin as Julius Krug. Directed and co-written (with Patricia Rozema) by filmmaker Michael Sucsy, the filming began on October 22, 2007, in Toronto. It blinks back and forth between the lives of Little Edie as a young woman and the actual film/premiere of the 1975 documentary film. First aired on HBO on April 18, 2009, the film won six Primetime Emmys. and two Golden Globes.
Play
In 2008, "Little Edie & The Marble Faun" aired as part of the Playhouse's Annual Metropolitan Writers Festival. In the mashup between Gray Gardens and Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Marble Faun", the relationship between Little Edie, Big Edie and Jerry is explored.
References in other works
In 1999, fashion photographer Steven Meisel shot an editorial, with the same name, featuring Amber Valletta, for Italian Vogue.
Rufus Wainwright's song "Gray Gardens" appeared on her 2001 album Poses .
The Canadian rock band The Stars "The Woods" from their album Heart contains an example of a dialogue from the movie.
American Band Six Gallery has the song "Edie and the Marble Faun," the lyrics that talk about the documentary.
In episode 3
The Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers (2009) featured jokes by Mario Cantone comic commentator that Joan and her daughter Melissa starred in a TV movie titled Gray Gardens .
Pada NBC's The New Normal , season 1, episode # 2: "Sofa's Choice" (2012), karakter meniru Little Edie.
Gray Gardens has been mentioned in RuPaul's Drag Race more than once: in season 4, the Sharon Needles contestant dressed up as Edie for a cat-themed magazine cover; and in season 5, episode 5: "Snatch Game", Jinkx Monsoon contestants participated in Match Game-style challenge impersonating Little Edie.
In 2015, the IFC series Documentary Now! show parody Gray Gardens called "Sandy Passage." This episode was written by Seth Meyers and stars Bill Hader and Fred Armisen as "Little Vivvy" and "Big Vivvy."
In part 3 of Bravo's Season 6 The Real Housewives of the New York reunion episode, host Andy Cohen suggests giving Sonja Morgan members "... you have a little Gray Gardens in you". For what he replied "If you want to say Gray Gardens, I love it, because you know what? Edie Beale and her mother, they are charming, talented, sensitive...". His friend, Luann de Lesseps, responded this with "They are mentally ill."
In 2017, episode 22 of season 8 of the Modern Family show, featuring a cyclist calling Claire Dunphy "Gray Gardens" as she exits the antique Rolls Royce.
See also
- List of American films of 1975
References
http://metropolitanplayhouse.org/hawthornucopia
Tautan eksternal
- Situs web resmi
- Grey Gardens di IMDb
- Grey Gardens di AllMovie
- Grey Gardens di Database Film TCM
- Grey Gardens di Katalog American Film Institute
- Grey Gardens di Rotten Tomatoes
- "Catatan tentang Grey Gardens ". Esai Collection Kriteria oleh Hilton Als
- Artikel tentang Albert Maysles
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments