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Joan Crawford's Home Movies

Name: Joan Crawford's Home Movies
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1942-01-01
Duration: 28 min
Cast: Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Christina Crawford, Charles McCabe, Christopher Crawford

Documentary

The private Joan Crawford fought as hard to create a normal family life as she did to establish her career. She forged her own path and to that end became a single parent, eventually adopting and raising four children. Like many parents, she picked up a 16mm camera and began filming both the special and the ordinary events of her family’s life. These home movies (ca. 1940–42) present that which one rarely gets to see: a larger-than-life personality at home, unadorned, just being herself—and often in color, at a time when her feature films were black and white. Crawford filmed most of the home movies herself; when she is on camera, it is unclear who is behind it.

Director: Joan Crawford

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