Grey Gardens

Dedicated to two glorious, staunch women. S-T-A-U-N-C-H

[littleediebeale-1]

“I know what I am, and I could never have done anything else than what I did. But the regret is terrible. You know, there were people that I loved and they died, and there were things that I wanted to do, and that passed— the opportunity to do them. And I couldn’t leave my mother and I couldn’t figure out what to do about the house. So I just went on. But I could not have done otherwise. Couldn’t have. If I had been a different person, I could have. Life is nothing but what you choose: either/or. Definitely.” -Edie Beale

[grey-gardens]

“You gotta go on chicken, you gotta go on in life. Even when you’ve lost your song.”

— Big Edie (via living-dead-boi)

[kangaroomangroove]

grey gardens 1975

[omgthatdress]

fucking icon

[matildasrevenge]

[the-ultimate-junkyard8]

[eccentricks]

“Daughter Edie, with the wonder-filled voice and clear, large-eyed face of a permanent debutante, is 56. Rarely beautiful in earlier years, the brief shadowed reflection of that beauty catches one at the throat in sudden, swift-passing moments in close-up.”

Review of “Grey Gardens” in The Buffalo News, 1975.

[grey-gardens]

[eccentricks]

“Cousin Edie (great beauty of my youth).

Artistic - only member of my family close to nature.”

—Lee Radziwill to The Maysles, 1972. (via Kent Bartram’s “Staunch Character” Facebook group)

[minaxmonsoon]

"Mother's French operetta. I dance, I write poetry, I sketch. But that doesn't mean we're crazy.

[cool-heat]

[grey-gardens]

“Clothing that could metamorphose was especially prized during the tight years of the early Depression. “She continued the challenge of interchangeable pieces that could be used in various ways: sashes that turned into impromptu skirts, jackets that became headdresses, skirts that became capes. She also liked hidden pockets, skirts that looked like trousers and vice versa, whatever was versatile and unexpected,” writes Secrest on Elsa Schiaparelli.”

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Sound familiar?

(via eccentricks)

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[rinbylin]

[schlock-luster-video]

On April 6, 1976, Grey Gardens was screened at the USA Film Festival.

[grey-gardens]

50 years today!

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