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.

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. Hello dear subscribers and friends of the faun. 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. 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.

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. Directed by steve pelizza. Grey gardens chronicled the lives of the. 1 923 likes 4 talking about this.

30 p m including film screening and book signing by jerry torre at the ritz east 125 s. With jason hay steve pelizza jerry torre. Jerry s film has moved into its final stages and we. Grey gardens film screening with the marble faun happens tonight july 19 7 to 10.

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. Little edie nicknamed him the marble faun after the nathaniel hawthorne novel but his given name was jerry torre. 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.