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The Grey Gardens' Ladies: один раз в год сады цветут

Oct 08, 2009 06:14

Если бы Большая и Маленькая Эди не были родственницами Жаклин Кеннеди, судьба двух затворниц из усадьбы "Серые Сады" (Grey Gardens), возможно, никому не была бы интересна. Они были именно тем, кем были: аристократками Нового Света, членами высшего нью-йоркского общества, щедро одаренными красотой, талантами, деньгами. И ушли из этого общества, чтобы за 25 лет забвения и одиночества создать свой причудливый мир из фантазий и сожалений.

Эдит "Большая Эди" Бувье Бил /Edith "Big Edie” Bouvier Beale (слева) и Эдит "Маленькая Эди" Бувье Бил / Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale (справа)

Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale

Скан статьи из журнала L'Officiel.
Автор: Серафима Чеботарь sugneddin
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Семья Бувье

Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale. - Маленькая Эди

Маленькая Эди в качестве манекенщицы на показе мод в Ист-Хэмптоне

"Все готово для дебюта": фотография юной дебютантки в The New York Times

Маленькая Эди, 1935 г.

East Hampton, 1951

Две Эди

East Hampton, 1951

Little Edie and her friend Eleanor Maloney in 1933, East Hampton.

East Hampton, 1940 with Spot

1938 on the stoop of Grey Gardens with Spot

East Hampton, 1951

Стихи Маленькой Эди, посвященные матери

Фелан Бил сообщает Эдит о сокращении денежного пособия

Big Edie
Photo: Henry Benson, 1971

“My wife and I drove out to Long Island in 1971, as I had seen a small article about an eviction notice for Jackie Kennedy’s relatives. I knocked on the door. Finally I heard a ‘Yoo-hoo’ coming from an upstairs window. Daughter Edie let me in. Her mother, Edith, came down for the first time in eighteen months, looked around, and said to her daughter, ‘Edie, you haven’t been doing the dusting.’ This was three years before the Maysles documentary and almost a year before Jackie visited and had the house cleaned up. In this photograph, Edith sits in front of her portrait as a young woman.” - Harry Benson

1971. The first pictures of the Beales taken in the squalor. There are very few, if any, pictures taken during the years in between the good times and the 1970s. So for thirty years, the two lived totally reclusive lives, mostly in bed. What did they do all those years? Family visited infrequently - apparently the grandchildren saw their grandmother just a few times. The HBO movie tried to tell the story of before and after - but not much was said of the many long years in between. And - the Maysles filmed for only six short weeks - all the pictures come from such a short time of history in so many, many years. What a sad existence. This picture is in the living room looking at the back yard.

1075 - After the big clean up - the yellow bedroom where most of the action in the Maysles documentary took place. The two ate, lived, and slept here. To Edie’s left you can see the hot plate on her bed where she made her meals. So appetizing! Big Edie shows herself as a beautiful debutante in the picture.

From the documentary - in this famous scene - a cat goes to the bathroom on Big Edie’s portrait and she thinks that is so funny!!! Through that door is a large closet that connects to another bedroom. This room is actually very very small.

Две Эди и братья Мейслесы

Real life. During the long, cold winters, the two woman stayed mostly in bed wrapped in their coats - there was no heat in the house, nor was there running water for years. Notice Big Edie admiring herself in the mirror.

There are said to be 5 bedrooms in Grey Gardens - not sure if that is correct though. But I think this may the boys original bedroom, the clue I am going on is it appears to be the same chest in the next picture - but there is no mirror in this picture. Plus the terrible roof damage looks the same in a following picture.

A very rare picture of Little Edie, all dressed up and away from Grey Gardens. Here she is at the wedding of a friend, and reportedly she sang at the wedding!

Похороны Большой Эди

After Little Edie left Grey Gardens, she lived in NYC for a while, then Florida, she then moved to Montreal to learn French, then lived for a while with her nephew in California, and finally settled back in Florida - where her brothers had begged her and her mother to go 30 years before. She looks so happy here, so normal - and so clean! In Florida she swam every day and her nephew said she must have had friends for she talked on the telephone for hours. She was happy everyone says. She lived for 23 years after leaving Grey Gardens and died in 2002 at the age of 84.

Поместье Grey Gardens

Фан-арт: Серые Сады в 1936 году и в 1972. Почувствуйте разницу

Особняк Серые Сады, фото 1972 г.

A 1975 documentary captured the eccentric lives of Edith Bouvier Beale, known as Big Edie, and her daughter, Little Edie, in Grey Gardens, the filthy, dilapidated mansion they occupied in East Hampton.
After Big Edie died in 1979, Little Edie sold the house to Sally Quinn and Benjamin C. Bradlee, who undertook a massive renovation. These photographs, which have never been seen by the public before, were taken by a photographer hired by Ms. Quinn at the time she and her husband purchased the house, in order to capture the extent of the decay.

Thirty-four years after a documentary film introduced the world to Grey Gardens and its eccentric occupants, a new movie on HBO is again casting light on the legend of this East Hampton property. In 1979, when this photo was taken, Sally Quinn, the writer and Washington hostess, and her husband Benjamin Bradlee, former editor of The Washington Post, purchased the property, which had fallen into complete disarray, and set out to restore it to its earlier splendor.

This never-before-seen shot shows a sunroom with doors leading outside, where years of neglect had hidden the low grey cement walls that gave Grey Gardens its name.

Ms. Quinn says that when she pressed a key on this piano in the living room, the whole thing collapsed and fell through the floor.

Among the debris Ms. Quinn and Mr. Bradlee found in their house were the corpses of cats and skulls of raccoons. Here, scattered seashells and piles of books occupy one of the ten bedrooms.

The bedroom used by Little Edie after her mother died. A single light bulb hangs in a bird cage above the bed.

Upon seeing the house's state of disrepair, Mr. Bradlee failed to share his wife's enthusiasm. "I wasn't sure I wanted to buy the house," he said. "There were 52 dead cats in it, and funeral arrangements had to be made for each one." Above, the master bedroom, which had been used by Big Edie.

Above, a small bedroom with a porch that has views of the ocean.

A detail from the master bedroom used by Big Edie. Today, the home is a summer residence for Ms. Quinn and Mr. Bradlee and has become a destination that guests routinely describe as "magical." Lauren Bacall, a friend of the Bradlees, says she has many fond memories. "It is a happy house," Ms. Bacall said. "There is life there."

A rough sketch of the floor plans, created by a fan of Grey Gardens. The first floor starting from the left shows the dining room, center entry hall, living room, solarium. Upstairs layout is at front right. The yellow bedroom where the Edies lived during the Maysles documentary is on the left side, back room on the floor plan. The pink bedroom attached to the sunbathing deck is the room on the right side, back.

Lois Wright paints the Beales

Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, and Lois Wright in 1962

Их образ до сих пор вдохновляет не только дизайнеров, но и представителей других творческих профессий: о них выходят книги, пишут песни, в 2006 году состоялась премьера невероятно успешного мюзикла «Серые сады», а в апреле 2009 года вышел художественный фильм, где двух Эди блестяще сыграли Дрю Берримор и Джессика Ланж.

Кукла, изоражающая Маленькую Эди

Кадры из фильма "Серые Сады" (2009)

Дрю Бэрримор на премьере "Серых Садов"

Garden State
For fall, designers are offering up elements of Little Edie Beale’s eccentric style, including distinctive prints and layering pieces.
The Beale Deal

In HBO’s upcoming "Grey Gardens" film, which debuts on April 18, any initial surprise about how Drew Barrymore’s California clip has melted into a Long Island cum-New England drawl disappears. You lose sight of the fact that Barrymore and Jessica Lange (as Little Edie and Big Edie Beale) packed on the pounds with the help of pads and prosthetics is that or isn’t it Lange’s actual dangling underarm fat? (It isn’t; those prosthetics are good.) Even the faux Grey Gardens house itself, located not in East Hampton but Toronto, is practically a pitch-perfect rendition of the original’s grubby feline-filled squalor-littered with cat-food cans with period correct labels. And one of the most integral parts to remaking the famed 1973 documentary by Albert and David Maysles is the fabulous fashion. For this, audiences have Brooklyn-based costume designer Catherine Marie Thomas to thank. "This has been so different from my other jobs," says Chicago native Thomas, whose other credits include "Kill Bill," "27 Dresses" and "A Prairie Home Companion." "My job was really about helping those two ladies actually feel like the characters. The other movies were more an external, aesthetic thing." And, indeed, Uma Thurman without her bumblebee yellow flight suit would still have been a kick-ass karate killer, but Barrymore-as-Little Edie without the head wraps and eccentric, deconstructed style? You can’t separate the character from her look. To a certain set of "Grey Gardens" devotees, Little Edie is as much a fashion icon as her first cousin Jackie Kennedy.

In fact, the biggest challenge in tackling the documentary was "getting over the expectations," Thomas notes, "not just of ourselves but the people who love ‘Grey Gardens’ and the fashion industry. You’re recreating iconic people. [The style] has been covered so many times and in so many different ways by designers." There’s a twist to the HBO edition, however-like Scott Frankel’s 2006 musical of the same name, the movie also looks to the decades before the Maysles brothers began filming in 1973. Director Michael Sucsy cuts the later scenes, often lifted straight from the documentary, with moments from the Thirties, Forties and Fifties to explain how the Beales ended up a mother-daughter duo living in ragtag isolation. And at the privileged start, they’re utterly glamorous.

"We looked at Nancy Cunard and Cecil Beaton photographs from that era," says Thomas, adding that she had full access to Sucsy’s enormous trove of photographs of the Beales, compiled from years of research. One snapshot in particular caught her eye. "Little Edie was wearing a silk charmeuse gown, with a zipper up the front and a hoodie," Thomas recalls. "We thought, what an amazing metaphor for her because the hooded gown and the zipper were incredibly progressive for the Thirties. This woman was so ahead of her time even when she was 18." Barrymore wears a replica of that very dress in a party scene at Grey Gardens, when she’s soft-shoeing it with Lange, who, as the elder Beale, is decked out in a dazzling persimmon velvet robe over a palazzo-pant onesie.

Robes are, in fact, what Lange wears in the majority of the movie. She spends the early years clad in gorgeous chinoiserie embroidered kimonos. "Jessica had more of a bohemian feel," says Thomas. "Everything was a little looser, a little more flowy." And those outfits made for an easy-and symbolic -transition to the Seventies period when Big Edie is mostly bedridden and dressed in bathrobes. Lange, Thomas adds, "abandoned all the confining undergarments of the period because Big Edie was so free."

Though many of the costumes, culled from various vintage shops like New York Vintage and Stella Dallas in Brooklyn, are merely Grey Gardens-inspired, a handful of looks are virtual knock-offs from the documentary. These include the black sweater and panty hose ensemble Little Edie sports while dancing to a peppy Virginia Military Institute march with an American flag in hand, and the brown skirt she wears upside down while in the garden. Thomas even had brooches and a simple blue sweater vest recreated for the film. And then there’s Little Edie’s floral brown and yellow maillot-Barrymore’s is the same print as the original. "We were lucky that a fan of ‘Grey Gardens’ had collected that bathing suit," Thomas says.

Thomas also paid plenty of attention to Little Edie’s wacky DIY sensibility. Case in point: the crochet skirt Barrymore wears in a later scene, which eagle-eyed viewers will notice first appears in the movie as a tablecloth. "She had an incredible, unique way of looking at things," says Thomas. "It’s genius how she knew how to manipulate things." Little Edie had a particular obsession with working everything from towels to that blue sweater vest as headdresses to hide her hair loss. "They were her own form of expression, like putting on a wig everyday."

Those head wraps provided some of the toughest dressing moments. "Every time you put a scarf on Drew’s head," Thomas says, "it would affect the prosthetics. She had, like, 30 different pieces on her face and anytime you wrapped anything on her head, it would either pull them back or crunch them forward so you’d end up with a weird Cro-Magnum brow."

That wasn’t the only difficult part of the shoot for Thomas. Like the Maysles brothers who wore flea collars around their ankles while filming the documentary-Sucsy comically depicts this on film-she had her own occupational hazards. "I was on nasal steroids, my eyes were breaking out," says Thomas. "I wouldn’t trade it for anything else, but it was a nightmare." The costume designer, it turns out, is allergic to cats.

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