Joan Crawfords Home Movies (1942)

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 familys life These home movies ca 194042 present that which one rarely gets to see a largerthanlife personality at home unadorned just being herselfand 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