Grey Gardens Before And After And After
Rare photos of the rooms inside Grey Gardens and the squalid conditions that the Beales lived in before and after the raid in 1972 that threatened eviction from their home. You will see before and after photos of the initial clean up during that time, and later photos of the renovation during the early 1980s after Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee and his wife journalist Sally Quinn bought the estate from Edie Beale in 1979. You will also see the transfomation of the neglected property into the beautiful gardens that are there today!
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grey gardens is a part of their myth not the other way around. as for the house itself i loved it back in its hey day of the ’30′s & ’40′s…the clean up & almost uniform turquoise paint (??) used through out took the houses personality away…the bradless have done a fab job at restoring the house back to its original beauty…but it will never be the same again without the unique full force of nature that was the Beales
i don’t agree at all. the two Beale women were far much more than even the wonderful old house, it was a terrible shame how it was left to fall apart…just like they were left to fall apart themselves too with mental health issues. but it is their tenacity to keep on fighting & little edies sparkling personality & big edies ‘big edieness’ that inspires & fascinates us.
No….its actually Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra singing. But I did choose this song because Big Edie can be heard singing ‘Tea for two’ in the original documentary…and was one of her favorites!
Is that actually Big Edie singing? I know she had a record of her singing this song.
The original Doc. is now streamed on Netflix I was amazed and riveted to this.
Thanks….glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for uploading this
Edie complained that East Hampton society wanted every house looking just like the next -
” you can get arrested in East Hampton for wearing red shoes on a Thursday” said Edie
Call me bizarre, but I liked the house when it was falling apart.
If the house was this gorgeous in 1977 when Grey Gardens was recorded less people would have watched it and nobody outside East Hampton today would even known where Grey Gardens was exactly
I adored this video. Thank you for sharing such treasures.
Thank you so much for this video. The house looks absolutely gorgeous. It has such character and history. I also have just watched the documentary and will watch the film later. I remember being riveted to the original documentary when it first aired. Bless. Just lovely to see that heavenly house nurtured and loved.
Thank you for your nice compliment! It was a fun project putting this all together!
Outstanding video, amazing! Thank you so much for the rarely seen views of the interior of Grey Gardens.
thanks for posting it—loved it.
Does anyone know if the documentary is being repeated?
Tahank you so much for taking the time to create this. I also saw the Documentary last night and loved the eccentricity and belief this Mother and Daughter still had in there hopes and dreams a truely beautiful couple facing terrible diversity !
so glad this place is still standing and back to its former glory a truly facinating place
Wow….What a great way to spend an evening….watching the original documentary followed by the movie! I wish the 2 would air back to back in America!!! I don’t think the docu has been broadcast here in many years! Thank you for your nice comment……And cheers from California!
My goodness! I was heading to bed early last night here on the Emerald isle of Ireland. Grey Gardens documentary was starting on the tv . I spent the next 4 hours watching the docu / followed by the film with Jessica lange/ Drew Barrymore.. Both absolutely facinating. I am sooooo delighted to see this video of Grey Garden. What complicated women they were, in such a innocent way. I loved learning about them.
Thank You “again for the Video.
Namaste.
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it…….putting aside the typos in a couple of the subtitles, I am happy with the way it turned out! Cheers……
This is an awesome video! You also chose excellent music to accompany the pictures. Wonderful job!
Thank-you very much for posting this! I watched the documentary years ago, and more recently the HBO movie. I was very curious to see a little more!
Fascinating and tragic wonderful to see the house restored to its former beauty
Think the reason they lived in a mess was they had not been used to taking care of themselves and were completely eccentric. But what great beauties in there time – good gene’s apart from the eccentricity
When Little Edie was selling it, the stipulation was that it was not to be torn down. The Bradlee’s thought they were getting themselves into a money pit, but they actually came upon a treasure chest of a house. It may have needed more than just “a coat of paint”. But it’s nice to see people can see through things to the original beauty. They deserve much credit for not allowing the place to become too grandiose and lose its charm.
I think you may have some of your facts wrong! The Bradlees bought GG with the objective to restore it to the way it was in its prime during the Beale era…..even most of the wicker and other furniture orrignally used in the house by the Beales was found years later in the attic after the Bradlees bought it, restored and is now used to furnish the house!!!
I also remember Eddie’s comment about paying for trash removal…. The house had only 14 rooms and was originally used as a summer cottage by the Beale family! I think the medias description of the house as a mansion perhaps makes the GG story that more intriguing, shocking and tragic and is just another example of how frequently the news media distorts the facts to make the story more sensational!
Edie makes a casual comment on how ridiculous it was to pay for trash removal–they just plopped it behind the curtains and thought nothing about it. I don’t know where they get the idea that it’s a mansion–it’s a large house.