Documentary Grey Gardens (and Trump)

[ZERTErYNOthe]

Has anyone watched the documentary Grey Gardens? It is a documentary from 1975. Here is the wikipeida description:

Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, formerly 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.

I see so many parallels to our current President. "Big Edie" and "Little Edie", Mother and Daughter, were "Socialtes". Big Edie's husband worked for her father, and purchased the estate, which she kept after the divorce. She continued to pursue her singing career afterwards (that days version of a reality performer). She kept up the lifestyle until in 1971 they found her house "full of litter, rife with the odor of cats and in violation of various local ordinances".

I think that our socialite reality performer President has taken over our estate, and it is now "full of litter, rife with the odor of cats and in violation of various local ordinances".

[Mike Nelson]

1. Well...

... they lived in my neighborhood. They did not go out much... my grandparents did say they were socialites when younger, but "Little Edie" was always strange and seemed to "rebel" and not want to go to the Maidstone Club to "hob-nob" all the time. The mother was more "normal" when younger. I wish the Trump family would become as reclusive - and the sooner the better!

[MoonchildCA]

2. I saw it a few years ago.

There was also a movie made with Drew Barrymore playing the younger Edie.

They were relatives of Jackie Kennedy.

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. I've watched it several times. Yes, they were socialites who fell on hard times.

I think they were both mentally ill, especially the daughter.

However, they didn't appear to be SOCIOPATHS like Dumpy. They seemed to be relatively kind.

Wasn't Big Edie related to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? I seem to remember that at some point, the Lee or Kennedy family tried to help them upgrade their dilapidated home.

[Staph]

4. It's showing on Turner Classic Movies this week.

Saturday early morning, 1:30 am.

From IMDB:

The film was something of an accident, in the sense that Albert Maysles and David Maysles came across Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale when involved in another project--a movie about (Jacqueline Kennedy's sister) Lee Radziwill's childhood. As part of research, the Maysles brothers were introduced to the Beales, and were captivated by their world. Deciding not to make the Radzwill film, they turned instead to the Beales, and a year after first meeting the two women, began filming.