Marble Faun Grey Gardens

Lois wright one of the two birthday party guests in the film hosted a public television show for 30 years in east hampton from the early 1980s to december 2018.

Marble faun grey gardens.

The marble faun of grey gardens is jerry torre s touching and at times haunting memoir about his teenage days as caretaker of grey gardens the now celebrated mansion chronicled in the iconic documentary grey gardens and two feature length films. 1 923 likes 4 talking about this. Directed by steve pelizza. The marble faun of grey gardens documentary new york ny.

For those not familiar with jerry torre who edie referred to as the marble faun in the maysyles film he is the handyman who appeared in both the original documentary as well as the sequel the beales of grey gardens. Jerry the marble faun torre b. Jerry s film has moved into its final stages and we. 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.

With jason hay steve pelizza jerry torre. Grey gardens film screening with the marble faun happens tonight july 19 7 to 10. A 2011 documentary the marble faun of grey gardens by jason hay and steve pelizza showed that he was then a sculptor at the art students league of new york. Torre now 65 recently co authored a memoir titled the marble faun of grey gardens that details his experience befriending edith ewing bouvier beale then 78 and her daughter edith bouvier.

Little edie nicknamed him the marble faun after the nathaniel hawthorne novel but his given name was jerry torre. Grey gardens chronicled the lives of the. 30 p m including film screening and book signing by jerry torre at the ritz east 125 s.