Joan Crawford's Home Movies
1942•28m•Released
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
Languages
No Language
Cast
Joan Crawford
Self
Margaret Sullavan
Self
Christina Crawford
Self
Charles McCabe
Self
Christopher Crawford
Self
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