Grey Gardens is a 1976 documentary film about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' eccentric cousin and aunt. Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange will appear in an HBO movie adaptation of "Grey Gardens."

The story tell the relationship between the mother-daughter duo of "Big Edie" (Lange) and "Little Edie" Beale (Barrymore), who spent most of their lives in a decaying mansion on New York's Long Island.

The project was originally announced as a feature film in early 2006.

Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale made national headlines in 1971 when the Suffolk County Health Department raided their dilapidated East Hampton, N.Y., mansion -- named Grey Gardens -- and found more than 50 cats, raccoons, fleas, piles of garbage, human and cat excrement and no heat or running water. The department threatened to kick the pair out of the 28-room mansion before Kennedy Onassis stepped in and paid to help clean it up. Their story was documented by "Gimme Shelter" directors Albert and David Maysles.
Big Edie died in 1977, and Little Edie sold the house to Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and his wife Sally Quinn two years later. She became a nightclub singer, moved to Florida and died in 2002.

Barrymore's upcoming credits include the films "He's Just Not That Into You" near Jennifer Aniston and "South of the Border."



Publication date: 18 September 2007   

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