Little Edie is shown here, in the coveted “El Morocco's Family” album, as Miss Edith Beale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phelan Beale with Mrs. Woodward Vietor’s son Jack,“who has diplomatic ambitions.” Through the 30s, The El Morocco was the ultimate place to be seen, and especially to be photographed by resident photographer and one of the earliest paparazzo, Jerome Zerbe. In an interview with Studs Terkel, Zerbe describes the patrons of Elmos as, “the people whose houses one knew were filled with treasures. These were the women who dressed the best. These were the women who had the most beautiful of all jewels. These were the dream people that we all looked up to and hoped that we or or our friends could sometimes know and be like.”
Photo Courtesy of Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens: A Life in Pictures |
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