Edith Bouvier Beale, nearly eighty, and her daughter "Little" Edie, in her late fifties, hold court at Grey Gardens, their crumbling secluded mansion in East Hampton. Edith, born of French aristocracy, was once a performer and recorded singer. "Little" Edie, a former beauty queen, costumes herself in a series of bizarre outfits, which she calls dressing up *for combat.* Imagine an older Paris Hilton, down on her luck, being kept courtesy of the largesse of wealthier kinfolk. The overall impression of these women is that they're both completely wacko and, if they hadn't come from money, they'd have been locked up years before. The cats run rampant and are not litter-trained, but they do appear to eat better and more frequently than the humans; the raccoons in the attic are fed daily but continue to consume the crumbling walls; the women partake of meals of caviar on crackers - how stale they are is anybody's guess. If the name "Bouvier" sounds familiar, it should. They're close kin to "Jackie O" - Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - who withstood considerable public ridicule for the squalid living conditions of her eccentric relations and who, apparently, actually took it upon herself at some point to visit the house to clean it up. This ground-breaking documentary has become a true cult classic, as have all of the works of the great Albert and David Maysles - a legendary documentary film-making team whose credits include 'Salesman,' 'Gimme Shelter' and 'Grey Gardens.' Their 1964 film on The Beatles forms the backbone of the DVD 'The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit.