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Beale was born on February 13, 1922, in New York City, New York. [1] He was the youngest son of Phelan Beale Sr and his wife Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (known as "Big Edie"), daughter of his father's law partner, John Vernou Bouvier Jr. [3] Beale grew up at Grey Gardens at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood in East Hampton on Long Island.
In 1924, Phelan Beale, a prominent attorney bought the house for his wife Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale. Edith was the daughter of Beale’s law partner, John Vernou Bouvier, and sister to John “Black Jack” Bouvier, would have two famous daughters.
Jun 29, 2016 · In the 44 years since, Edith Bouvier Beale and her namesake daughter’s fall from mid-Atlantic aristocracy (and how that fall was reflected in their crumbling home) has made Little Edie and Big Edie permanent fixtures in the ever-shifting landscape of American pop culture, most notably in the Maysles brothers’ 1976 documentary and of course in the musical Grey Gardens, onstage at the ...
May 21, 2018 · In a signature scene from “Grey Gardens,” Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale parades down a staircase in the decaying East Hampton, New York, mansion she shares with her eccentric mother, “Big Edie,” aunt to former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
A trailer for the original 1975 “Grey Gardens” documentary. Background on the Beales. Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (“Big Edie”) was born in 1895 into a wealthy family and grew up in New Jersey and Manhattan.
Phelan Beale, Jr. (16 June 1920 – 26 June 1993)[1][2] was an American journalist and unemployment compensation law expert.[1] Beale was a son of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and a brother of Edith Bouvier Beale whose lives were highlighted in the documentary Grey Gardens.
Jun 26, 1993 · Phelan Beale Jr. BEALE Phelan, Jr., 73, died June 26 in Oklahoma City. He was born on June 16, 1920 in New York City to Phelan Beale, Sr., and Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale. He grew up in East Hampton, Long Island. He attended Westminster School for Boys in Simsbury, Connecticut and studied journalism at Columbia...
