Grey Gardens: a compelling tale of faded glory, fur coats and maverick feminism

By Lenny Ann Low
Updated November 22 2015 - 10:13am, first published November 14 2015 - 12:00am
Edith (back) and daughter Edie Bouvier Beale, in a scene from the documentary 'Grey Gardens'.
Edith (back) and daughter Edie Bouvier Beale, in a scene from the documentary 'Grey Gardens'.

In 1973, two American documentary makers drove to an overgrown, derelict estate on Long Island in New York and began filming its inhabitants, a mother and daughter.

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