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Joan Crawford Home Movies

In 2006, Joan's grandson discovered some rare home-movie footage of Joan from the late-1930s to early-1940s among his mother's (Cathy LaLonde's) possessions. Around 4 hours of raw footage was edited to a half-hour and first shown at a UCLA Joan retrospective in 2008. Some of the footage later appeared in the Investigation Discovery channel's program "The Will: Family Secrets Revealed" in November 2010. Below are some screen shots from the TV-show footage. (Thanks to Shane for the larger shots.)

   

   

   

     

June 1941 with the first 'Christopher Crawford,' whom she was forced to return to his natural mother that November.