Little Edie The Marble Faun

Jerry torre who little edie dubbed the marble faun has been immortalized through the maysles movie.

Little edie the marble faun. While living at grey gardens edith little edie bouvier beale gave jerry the nickname the marble faun which jerry accepted as a fated path to art making. Jerry the marble faun torre b. David lally new york. Little edie nicknamed him the marble faun after the nathaniel hawthorne novel but his given name was jerry torre.

Jerry torre the teenage handyman shown in the documentary nicknamed the marble faun by little edie was sought by the filmmakers for years afterward and was found by chance in 2005 driving a new york city taxicab. Jerry the marble faun pairs big edie and little edie 2009 13 x 19 x 6. Albert maysles said that when little edie asked her mother laying on her deathbed if she had any last words she replied why just watch the film now torre s got his own film. No one had heard from him since 1979.

The marble faun is a character from a nathaniel hawthorne novel and torre said that became his nickname from little edie from that day forward. Known as the marble faun so named by edie beale torre will be in philly tonight july 19 for a one night only screening of albert and david maysles documentary from 1975 grey gardens. Little edie the marble faun a play by david lally played the metropolitan playhouse s annual author fest from january 14 27 2008. 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.