The life stories of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Little Edie were featured in the latest HBO series, Grey Gardens. Both were from prominent families, occasionally gracing the social circles of New York’s elite. However, circumstances dramatically reduced them from intelligent and fashionable ladies to mentally-deranged women who resigned their lives to fate and were constantly haunted by their failed aspirations. Their story first went to public in a documentary in 1976. It was also during this time that their relative, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, rescued them, and their East Hampton mansion-turned-garbage pit from deteriorating further.

Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore breathed life into these two eccentric personalities. I must say that the acting was exceptionally brilliant. It was as if you’re watching the real Edith and Edie act on screen. You could hardly distinguish them it becomes somewhat creepy. Not to mention the haunting view of the controversial and smelly Grey Gardens Mansion getting into the nostrils and nerves of the residents in the posh New York suburb, and this time, the viewers, too.

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