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Synopsis: The Maysles brothers pay visits to Edith Bouvier Beale, nearing 80, and her daughter Edie. Reclusive, the pair live with cats and raccoons in Grey Gardens, a crumbling mansion in East Hampton. Edith is dry and quick-witted - a singer, married but later separated, a member of high society. Edie is voluble, dresses - as she puts it - for combat in tight ensembles that include scarves wrapped around her head. There are hints that Edie came home 24 years before to be cared for rather than to care for her mother. The women address the camera, talking over each other, moving from the present to events years before. They're odd, with flinty affection for each other.
 
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PG
Year:
1975
94 min
£30,966
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- Look at what she did

- Look Very few people have this

- Don't touch that!

Al, I want you to see this

- [Edith Laughing]

- Now look, this is my mother

This British blood,

maybe Jewish, I don't know

In the Leaman family, I'm not sure

- I don't want that photographed

- Scotch blood... the Ewings

- Imagine showing those horrible things

I don't want you to show

But it's just a girl

from a good French family

It's a very beautiful face

[Mrs. Beale] I lived alone at least 30 years

l-I didn't mind

You get very independent

when you live alone

You get to be a real individual

- You can't have your cake and eat it too in life

- Oh, yes, I did

I did I had my cake, loved it,

masticated it, chewed it

- and had everything I wanted

- You can't have your cake and eat it too

I had a very, very happy,

satisfying life

Well, you had a rich husband

You should have stayed with him

- Now you might as well face it

- What! For money?

- She was bored

- Why, I was not I was a great singer

I had a perfect marriage,

beautiful children

Terribly successful marriage

Never had a fight in my life

- I never threw anything at Mr. Beale Never

- [Laughing]

They threw the bull around,

as they say

No, I never had any words

with Mr. Beale at all

I came down here to live in this,

in this house because I did all my singing here

I was so happy I was happier

going out and singing

than anything I've ever done

since I was born

I liked it better

than anything I ever did

- I can't find it, Mother

- Well, you could let me help you

- Let me...

- Listen, kid I'm extremely organized

I know exactly where

to look for this stuff

I've got it under control

right here, but I can't find it

Get it?

Well, bring in the...

bring in the orchestration

of"Tea for Two"

I can't do it

My feet hurt

Just try, babe

They're beautiful

I have to get my voice exactly back

the way it was when I was 45 years old

- You can't, Mother darling

- Oh, yes, I can Oh, yes!

- Something happens, face it

- I never strained my voice ever in my life

- Oh, but I strain my voice

from yelling and screaming

- What is the matter with me?

I could never speak again

Why, I can get it back in about a month,

just about You know, good hard work

(music) When we are together

together, hmmm (music)

Gould and Mother

made this record in 1934

- Sing it, babe, Just sing it

- He was Mother's accompanist

(music) We belong together (music)

(music) We're happy together (music)

(music) And life is a song (music)

(music) When we are together (music)

(music) We know we are where we belong (music)

(music) When we are together (music)

- (music) Like birds of a feather (music)

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