page_title: Grey Gardens
hierarchical_section_title: Grey Gardens
caption_attribution_description: English: Theatrical release poster for the 1975 documentary film Grey Gardens, promoting 1976 screenings at the Paris Theater in Manhattan. The poster features a portrait photograph of Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale (1895–1977) outside her derelict Grey Gardens estate in the Village of East Hampton, New York. LCCN 2004673428 at the Library of Congress.
context_page_description: Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, upper-class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival but was not entered into the main competition.
  Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer also directed, and Susan Froemke was the associate producer. The film's editors are credited as Hovde, Meyer and Froemke.
  In 2010, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In a 2014 Sight & Sound poll, film critics voted Grey Gardens the joint ninth best documentary film of all time.
context_section_description: Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, upper-class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival but was not entered into the main competition.
  Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer also directed, and Susan Froemke was the associate producer. The film's editors are credited as Hovde (who also edited Gimme Shelter and Salesman), Meyer and Froemke.
  In 2010, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In a 2014 Sight & Sound poll, film critics voted Grey Gardens the joint ninth best documentary film of all time.
caption: Theatrical release poster
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