The film recounts the sad, interwoven declines of socialite Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her aspiring actress-singer-dancer daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale—a.k.a. “Big Edie” and “Little Edie.” Their story became a tabloid fixture in 1971 after town officials in East Hampton, N.Y., tried to evict them from their ramshackle mansion, Grey Gardens. Why did anyone outside [...]