Edith Bouvier Beale

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Edith Bouvier Beale , called Little Edie (born November 7, 1917 in New York , New York , † January 9, 2002 in Bal Harbor , Florida ) was an American actress and model .

Life

Edith Bouvier Beale was the daughter of Wall Street attorney Phelan Beale and his wife Edith Ewing Bouvier (1896–1977), daughter of Irish and French-born New York banker John Vernou Bouvier II († 1948) and Maude Sergeant. Through her mother, she was the first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her sister Lee Radziwill . She enjoyed a Roman Catholic upbringing. In their early years, the family lived in New York City, where Edith started school in 1923, in East Hampton , Long Island . Later visited Little Edie , the Spence School and the prestigious College Girls Miss Porter's School in Farmington , in the US state of Connecticut . The parents divorced in 1931. After finishing school, Edith worked as a model in department stores in New York City and Palm Beach . Edith Bouvier Beale was never married, but was in a relationship with J. Paul Getty , Howard Hughes and Joseph P. Kennedy junior .

The documentary film Gray Gardens (1975) by the brothers Albert and David Maysles made mother and daughter known to a wide audience. The film shows the everyday life of the two eccentric women and shows how the authorities want to force them to move out of their dilapidated “Gray Gardens” property in East Hampton , which could only be prevented with the help of Edith Bouvier Beale's cousin Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

After her mother died in 1977, Little Edie sold the run-down property to Sally Quinn and her husband, Ben Bradlee, for $ 220,000 . Before moving to Florida, she lived with relatives in Southampton , Montreal and Oakland for several years . Edith Bouvier Beale was found dead in her Bal Harbor apartment on January 14, 2002. Coroners found that she had died five days earlier from complications from a heart attack .

In 2006, the musical Gray Gardens in New York first premiered at an off-Broadway theater, and after it was taken over at a Broadway theater, it won several prizes, including three Tony Awards .

A television film about the life of mother and daughter with the leading actresses Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore was released in 2009 under the title Gray Gardens , the German title is Die eccentric cousins ​​of the First Lady .

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SURNAME Bouvier Beale, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Little Edie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2002
Place of death Bal Harbor , Florida