The controversial documentary combined American royalty with jaw-dropping real estate and unforgettable honesty ...

It really was way ahead of its time.

Here are a few things you might not know about the must-watch, can't-look-away cult classic and the house it immortalized.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Edie) pictured outside Grey Gardens in 1975 - Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo There are few ...

Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, respectively, were once East Hampton’s most notorious recluses. The musical-theater piece Grey Gardens ...

At one point in the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, Little Edie Bouvier Beale turns to the camera and offers a bit of fashion advice: Wear pants or stockings under a skirt so that “you can always take ...

The Maysles brothers’ documentary on ‘Big’ and ‘Little’ Edie Beale will be celebrated for its film merits and lingering influence on pop culture. To truly comprehend the classic 1975 documentary “Grey ...

It was in a cover story in New York magazine that I first became aware of Grey Gardens. I'll never forget how appalled I was reading about the Beale women, Jackie Kennedy Onassis's aunt and first ...

“Grey Gardens” is the famous documentary about mother-daughter duo “Big Edie” Beale and “Little Edie” in their crumbling mansion on Long Island. Now there’s a new film called “That Summer,” featuring ...

Facing an uncertain future, Edith Bouvier Beale (age 79) and her adult daughter, "Little" Edie (age 57) , are forced to revisit their storied past and come to terms with it – for better, and more ...

The Great Escape Stage Company is taking on a complicated musical with "Grey Gardens." "Grey Gardens" centers around two real people, though the autobiographical elements are ever servants to the plot ...

Sometimes even a 28-room mansion in the Hamptons isn’t big enough for two people. At least not for Edith and “Little” Edie Bouvier Beale, the two-of-a-kind women immortalized in the 1973 David and ...