Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Albert Maysles David Maysles Ellen Hovde Muffie Meyer
Produced by	Albert Maysles David Maysles Associate Producer - Susan Froemke
Starring	Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale
Cinematography	Albert Maysles David Maysles
Edited by	Ellen Hovde Muffie Meyer Susan Froemke
Production company	Portrait Films
Distributed by	Portrait Films
Release date	September 27, 1975 (1975-09-27) (NYFF) February 19, 1976 (1976-02-19) (United States)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, formerly upper class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival but was not entered into the main competition.

Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer also directed, and Susan Froemke was the associate producer. The film's editors are credited as Hovde (who also edited Gimme Shelter and Salesman), Meyer and Froemke.

In 2010 the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In a 2014 Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted Grey Gardens the joint ninth best documentary film of all time.

Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (1895–1977), known as "Big Edie", and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale (1917–2002), known as "Little Edie", were the aunt and the first cousin, respectively, of former US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The two women lived together at the Grey Gardens estate for decades with limited funds in increasing squalor and isolation.