Little Edie The Marble Faun License

Thanks to a broadway musical and an hbo movie based on the film in recent years grey gardens has become an international cult sensation once more through revived.

Little edie the marble faun license.

And they are known not for being in society but rather. The marble faun is a character from a nathaniel hawthorne novel and torre said that became his nickname from little edie from that day forward. Edith ewing bouvier beale and her daughter edith bouvier beale are more commonly known as big edie and little edie. Today of course mrs.

Grey gardens real life marble faun to take part in talkback at ovation. The marble faun with the two edie beales of grey gardens like disco argyle prints and saddle shoes grey gardens the 1975 documentary by david and albert maysles is back in style. One could almost set jerry s time at grey gardens aside altogether and. No one had heard from him since 1979.

Jerry torre the teenage handyman shown in the documentary nicknamed the marble faun by little edie was sought by the filmmakers for years afterward and was found by chance in 2005 driving a new york city taxicab. Fans of the documentary grey gardens will remember the quiet understated and somewhat morose young man whom little edie dubbed the marble faun. Known as the marble faun so named by edie beale torre will be in philly tonight july 19 for a one night only screening of albert and david maysles documentary from 1975 grey gardens. Little edie nicknamed him the marble faun after the nathaniel hawthorne novel but his given name was jerry torre.

G night forever little edie. 1955 is an american sculptor he is best known for his appearance in the 1975 independent documentary films grey gardens and the beales of grey gardens by albert and david maysles as a sculptor his work has been shown in several galleries in new york city and written about in the new york times the wall street journal vogue architectural digest. Many have wondered what had become of the boy after all these years what memories did he have to share was he still alive. Grey gardens is empty at last new york times nov.

He recalls the day as a teen he trespassed on the grounds and met little edie who nicknamed him the marble faun after. Jerry the marble faun torre b.