Marble Faun Grey Gardens

With jason hay steve pelizza jerry torre.

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. 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. 1 923 likes 4 talking about this. Grey gardens chronicled the lives of the.

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. 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. Grey gardens film screening with the marble faun happens tonight july 19 7 to 10. The marble faun of grey gardens documentary new york ny.

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 the book co written with film historian tony maietta is a behind the scenes look at big edie and little edie and their bizarre and reclusive. Hello dear subscribers and friends of the faun. 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. Jerry the marble faun torre b.

Little edie nicknamed him the marble faun after the nathaniel hawthorne novel but his given name was jerry torre. The colorful humorous and meaningful life story of jerry torre known for his appearance as the marble faun in the 1975 maysles brothers documentary grey gardens as told by first time filmmakers jason hay and steve pelizza. Directed by steve pelizza.