MemoraBEALEia

"Miss Beale was the first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and is best known for her participation in the famous documentary Grey Gardens (1976). This book was specifically created for fans of the film. On April 22, 1976 college journalist Walter Newkirk travelled to Grey Gardens, the Beale estate on Long Island, to interview Edie Beale about Grey Gardens, for his college newspaper. In the 1970s, Edie Beale and her mother Edith Bouvier Beale - the respective cousin and aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and former society ladies - were living in a cat-infested, filthy, crumbling estate…