The Beales of Grey Gardens on Satellite TV

There was Jackie O and the Kennedy Camelot, all the glamor, glitter and power, and then you had to Edith Bouvier Beale and Little Edie, eccentric, strangely dressed societal castaways aunt and cousin who happened to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Known as Big and Little Edie, the couple lived in a dilapidated mansion that was filled with cats. In 1976 a documentary by Albert and David Maysles about this odd couple released and fascinated the world. The documentary, which actually named after the estate where Big and Little Edie lived, Gray Gardens, presents a haunting portrait of two women who seem to thrive, despite the decline of what surrounds them in their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. The documentary became a cult classic and fast Little Edie catapulted into the spotlight as a fashion icon and free spirit. You can use this incredible documentary, remastered in HD on satellite TV.Grey Gardens was once a beautiful, elegant place, under the care of the Beales', came to the ruins. The 28 room mansion in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York, was purchased in 1923 by Edith Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) and Phelan Beale, aunt and uncle to Jackie O. The Beales lived their for over 50 years; at its height was a suitable place for film and sports stars and foreign dignitaries, the kind you would expect from the Bouvier clan. The house had 14 rooms and 3 bathrooms, it was designed in 1897 by Joseph Green Leaf Thorpe.After her husband died, Big Edie lived on the estate with her daughter. They were hermits, ony living with cats and raccoons. Edith was known as a singer quickly apprehended, a member of high society. Edie and little Edie, is talkative and dresses in odd ensembles, wearing skirts upside down, and scarves wound tightly around her head. After, the word comes from two situations, the Suffolk County Board of Health raid the house and take out two people, which it unfit to live in. The mansion, at that time not even exported. The Beales later receive financial assistance of Jackie O and later moving back in.The two live in their own fantasy worlds. Edie dreams of a return to New York City as a debutante and dancer, while her mother remains in her bedroom with her bed filled with garbage and cats using the corner of the room as a toilet.The is remarkable and moving documentary, The shots of the decaying and filthy house must be seen in anything less than HD.A new movie remake will air on HBO, starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange as the mother-daughter pair, this film is both a tribute and homage to the documentary Beales themselves and the ladies. Although some not so favorable for a remake, it is worth the watch can not be worse than the musical, after all. Check your satellite TV guide to see if this HD broadcast version.