Grey Gardens

[Mrs. Beale] What are you

doing down there? Just standing there?

- [David Maysles] Just filming the main room

- [Edie] Whiskers!

[Mrs. Beale] Well, did you know that

Whiskers has disappeared?

- A cat got out I'm trying to get him in

- [David] Has he? Ah

Yeah, we don't know how he got out

I think he got out in that hole there

- No, I knew they were coming, and l...

- I think he got out in that hole

- He can jump up there

- I knew they were coming and...

Yeah No, he got out

in that hole, Edie

I put them all out

You told me to

No, dearie, he got out

in the hole, babe

"Take the cats out,"you said

- Did you hear what I said, woman?

- What?

He got out in this hole here

That was the noise we heard

That raccoon did that to my new wall

Isn't that terrible?

They'll have the whole house

down soon

[Edie]

Yeah, we'll be raided again

We'll be raided again

by the village of East Hampton

You know, they can get you in East Hampton

for wearing red shoes on a Thursday

and all that sort of thing

I don't know whether you know that

I mean, do you know that?

They can get you

for almost anything

- [Edie] It's the Maysles!

- [Albert Maysles] Hi, Edie

- [David] The gentlemen callers

- I saw your car

- One of my cats just got out

- Edie, you look fantastic

David, you look absolutely

terrific Honestly

You've got light...

You've got light blue on

Well, Al, you're still...

Mother says you're very conservative

[Laughs]

Brooks, everything looks wonderful

- Thank you

- Absolutely wonderful

This is the best thing

to wear for the day You understand

- Yeah

- Because I don't like women in skirts

and the best thing is to wear

pantyhose or some pants

under a short skirt, I think

Then you have the pants

under the skirt

and then you can pull the stockings

up over the pants, underneath the skirt

- Uh-huh

- And you can always take off

So I think this is the best

costume for the day

- Okay

- [Laughs]

I have to think

these things up, you know

Mother wanted me to come out

in a kimono, so we had quite a fight

So what did you do, photograph Brooks

cutting right down here?

- Yeah, I've been through the jungle

- Oh, for goodness sakes

What do you want to do now?

Where do you want to go? Upstairs?

Do you want to go up

and photograph it from the top porch?

- Okay

- Okay

They're gonna photograph

from the top now, Brooks

[David]

It's a beautiful garden back here

Did you see the wall garden?

- Oh, you mean the patio You mean this

- Yeah

That's a Spanish wall garden

over there, you know

- Oh, yes

- The Hills put that in

They imported everything from Rome

Mrs. Hill, she was

a famous horticulturist

That was one of the famous

gardens of America

Brooks, next summer,

if we're all living

I think a vegetable garden

would be a good thing in here

You don't get

enough sunlight in here

Yeah, Mother says she doesn't mind if you

have to cut down some privet for the garden

- Would be nice

- Yeah

Because food's going up

We heard that on the radio last night

Do you think my costume looked all right

for Brooks? I think he was a little amazed

- He's probably seen it before

- No, no This is the revolutionary costume

I never wear this in East Hampton

[David] He seems okay

He seems like he can handle it

[Edie] You can't be too careful

Know what I mean?

That was the original living room

You know, people go back

to a kitchen now

Though the washing machine was always

put in the maids' dining room

You know, the washtubs are

in the maids' dining room

- Let's go up

- It's very difficult

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