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Grey Gardens is a 2009 American biographical drama television film about the lives of Edith Bouvier and her mom Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale. Co-stars include Jeanne Tripplehorn as Jacqueline Kennedy, Little Edie's cousin, and Ken Howard as Phelan Beale, Little Edie's father. The film, directed by Michael Sucsy and co-written by Sucsy and Patricia Rozema, flashes back and forth between various events and dates ranging from Little Edie as a young débutante in 1936 moving with her mother to their Grey Gardens estate through the filming and premiere of the actual 1975 documentary Grey Gardens.Filming began on October 22, 2007, premiering on HBO on April 18, 2009.