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!
Tags: Before, sally quinn, Gardens., ben bradlee, edie beale, After, Grey
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What an incredible story! Is there a book?
Fabulous restoration. Thanks for the photos.
@keithholman2 My pleasure!
@jubellation Thank you for your nice comment…..Cheers!
Great job, very well put together , thank you! …………..This is such a fascinating story. Thank you Little Edie for insisting the house and grounds remained standing. A very interesting slice of humanity and history.
Often wondered what the house was like today …………..and I would love an invite too at the next Bradlees party!
@jimjimmyjames59 Thanks….glad you enjoyed it! Would like to attend a GG party too!! :)
Great video. Now if I can just swing an invitation to the Bradlee’s next party!
@catlet1961 Thank you for your nice comment! It was a fun project researching the photos on the net, choosing just the right music and putting it all together! I never expected the high number of viewings and all the nice comments!!!
Cheers…..Keith
thank you so much for this incredible video. It is so beautiful and interesting, I shall keep looking at it over and over again.
@Gem5771 Thanks for your comments and glad you enjoyed my video! It was an enjoyable project finding the photos and putting this all together!
Great video likewise! Thank you for sharing it!
Likewise, the documentary was ” one of a kind” and groundbreaking, loving, sad, courageous, sometimes funny too. They both certainly left a legacy. I appreciate seeing this video here too. So much obviously love went into the renovation of that house here. Cool!
i love is so much history
@bamboogroup thats cause the beales aren’t there…
i dunno… the house is just too sterile now…
@urbanangel13 your right i loved the house back then it had wonderful charecter i so love to come here and watch them again , i feel as though they were friends bless them
i think what we forget it was how they wanted to live they were happy enough, as the old lady got old she was happy to live i suppose like a recluse we will all get there someday, im a nurse and i have seen thousands of houses where people live like that and are quite happy i loved the documentary so much they were wonderful individuals
This home was just too much for these women to take care of with no money, no help and probably no experience growing up performing domestic responsibilites. They needed to move out of the house long before. That home required alot of money and a staff to maintain it. I feel like with all their rich relatives they could have sent some regular help for them.
Little Edie was definitely a champion among individualists. She liked being herself and just enjoying life. Even though I find it painful to look at the way they were forced to live, I find their attitudes very refreshing. After losing pretty much everything, they went on about their lives and found a way to be happy. There is a lesson in how they approached life, namely stuff doesn’t equal happiness.
Thanks for posting this.!!!
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.