FIRST LOOK: Official Poster Art for HBO Films GREY GARDENS & New Photo!

I'm quite dubious about Drew's performance, but she does look an awful lot like Little Edie.

"True Glamour Never Fades"?!

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Updated On: 3/19/09 at 10:31 AM

beautiful! I LOVE IT!! thanks for posting!

J*

Updated On: 3/19/09 at 10:42 AM

Updated On: 3/19/09 at 08:06 PM

I will make NO PLANS with ANYONE to do ANYTHING on April 18.

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True Glamour Never Fades?!! That tag line to promote the film is way off the mark. These two women were definitely not the two sharpest knives in the drawer by the time they were discovered to be living in abject poverty and living conditions too disgusting to be believed. Talk about sugar coating the facts.

I'm interested in seeing if the filmmakers have taken the liberty to turn a true life situation into another Hollywoodized fairy tale for public consumption.

Updated On: 3/22/09 at 05:07 PM

I was up at midnight the pther night so that I could sign up for EW's free LA screening, but I still haven't heard back.

How long does it take them to inform those who get tickets?

Anyone ever done one of these before?

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Technically, Jackie O was in the musical.

Edith Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) is Jackie Kennedy Onassis' father's sister. Jackie spent her childhood visiting Grey Gardens and East Hampton and remained close to her aunt and cousin throughout her entire life. This is validated by why she (actually, Aristotle Onassis) provided the funds to help clean-up Grey Gardens and keep them from being evicted from their home.

Jackie was always in contact with both Edies and occasionally visited the dilapitated Grey Gardens. Mr. Onassis was also quite fond of Big Edie and frequently spoke to her via telephone. Many conversations led into them singing duets together.

As many know, the Maysles first met the Beale women when Jackie's sister, Lee Radziwell contacted them regarding filming a documentary about her and Jackie's childhood. After meeting the Beale women, the Maysles were fascinated by these 2 women and chose to do a film just about them. This is how GREY GARDENS came to be and validates Lee and Jackie's close relationship to their eccentric aunt and cousin. If it weren't for Lee introducing the Maysles to her aunt and cousin there never would have been a GREY GARDENS documentary.

Edith (Big Edie) Bouvier Beale's 3 grandchildren assisted the creative team of the current HBO film and provided countless personal documents and letters which is how the screenplay was written. Little Edie's personal writings were also used to help expand on the information given throughout the original documentary by the 2 women. Everything incorporated in the film is based on these documents and the original documentary.

To learn more detailed information on the original GREY GARDENS film, I suggest obtaining the Criterion Collection DVD and listening to the audio commentary. Albert Maysles as well as the 2 female co-directors/producers of the film do the commentary and the info they provide is incredible. Not one stone is left unturned on just about everything.

Also of importance is the LITTLE EDIE LIVE! A VISIT TO GREY GARDENS interview/recording which was recorded on 4/22/76 by Walter Newkirk for his college newspaper The Rutgers Daily Targum. In this hour-long audio recording Little Edie speaks about the GREY GARDENS film and its aftermath and fills-in on tons of gaps and questions many had about her and her mother after watching the Maysles documentary.

I've learned so much about the Beale women from the DVD commentary and this 4/22/76 recording that the Maysles documentary became a totally different experience afterwards. Having seen the film countless times throughout the year, the film has become brand-new again... thanks to all this backstory learned from these 2 sources mentioned above.

Yes... the characters of Jacqueline "Jackie" Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and her sister Lee Bouvier Radziwell are indeed in the musical adaptation of GREY GARDENS. They appear in Act 1 of the musical.

Here they are with their Aunt Edith (Christine Ebersole) and her accompanist Gould (Bob Stillman). Jackie (Sarah Hyland) is on the lower left and Lee (Kelsey Fowler) is on the lower right:

Oy vey, this is gonna be two hours of Heaven.

And for some odd reason I find the first poster pic of Drew as Little Edie very moving.