ABSTRACT
When we spoke in 2003, Susan was chief administrator and principal filmmaker at Maysles Films in New York, a company she joined in the 1970s. Her first production with Albert Maysles and his late brother, David, was Grey Gardens, a now-classic por trait of Edie Beale and her mother, Edith Bouvier Beale, reclu sive relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. While at Maysles, Susan made more than 20 nonfiction films, including the Academy Award-nominated Lalee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (HBO), a look at poverty and education in the Mississippi Delta, and the Grammy Award-winning Recording The Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks (PBS), about the making of the Broadway hit’s cast album. We spoke about these projects in 2003, with an update in 2006.
