Celebrate 40 Years Of Grey Gardens At The Parrish Art Museum

SOUTHAMPTON, NY — Are you a Big Edie or a Little Edie? For longtime fans, a Grey Gardens event is set to unveil at the Parrish Museum.

It's been 40 years since brothers Albert and David Maysles' iconic documentary Grey Gardens debuted, and to mark the anniversary, the Parrish Museum in Water Mill, in conjunction with the Hamptons International Film Festival and the Maysles Brothers Documentary Center, is throwing a Grey Gardens Screening and Costume Party event at the Museum.

The event is slated to unfold on August 11 at 5 p.m.

But the focus isn't on the Jessica Lange/Drew Barrymore HBO Grey Gardens.

Instead, it's the original documentary the Maysles Brothers filmed in the 70s about Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, a mother and daughter who were related to Jackie Bouvier Kennedy and who were hoarders living in squalor in their 28-room East Hampton mansion, Grey Gardens.

Guests who come in costume as Big Edie or Little Edie will be admitted free—so channel your inner Edie and enjoy the special film excerpts, the costumes, the parade and the Grey Gardens conversation.

For more info log on here.

Photos: Courtesy Janus Films