Big Edie // Little Edie

This beautiful film shot by Albert and David Maysles in 1975 documents the everyday lives of Edith Beales --- x2

the eccentric cousins of Jackie O lived unusually in heartbreaking poverty in a run down old mansion in New York.

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"If you can't get a man to propose to you, you might as well be dead."     - EDITH 'LITTLE EDIE' BOUVIER BEALE

"...I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose...under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today. " - EDITH 'LITTLE EDIE' BOUVIER BEALE

"You can't have your cake and eat it...."

- EDITH 'LITTLE EDIE' BOUVIER BEALE
 

"Oh, yes, I did. I did, I had my cake, loved it, masticated it, chewed it and had everything I wanted. "

-EDITH 'BIG EDIE' BOUVIER BEALE