Joan Crawford's Home Movies

1940s 40 min

Following our screening of DANCING LADY, we are excited to be once again joined by Casey LaLonde as he presents a rare and intimate collection of home movies from the Crawford Estate.

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 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.

Your Festival Pass or Ticket to DANCING LADY includes admission to JOAN CRAWFORD’S HOME MOVIES.

Casey LaLonde is the grandson of legendary Hollywood actress Joan Crawford. Casey has spent his adult life preserving the memory of his grandmother through public speaking engagements, attending classic Hollywood film festivals and screening Joan Crawford's greatest films for movie fans all over North America. He has appeared at the Turner Classic Film Festival, the Turner Classic Movies Cruise, the Rehoboth Beach Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the UCLA Film Archive, The Castro Theater in San Francisco, the Little Falls Public Library, Little Falls, NJ, George Eastman House Museum in Rochester, NY, and Film Forum in Manhattan.

Director Joan Crawford

Country USA

Language English