Because she “carried her own camera,” Joan documented many episodes during this love affair, and she kept the filmed record until her death. Several hours long and covering three years, the film was discovered many years later by her family and was first publicly shown on December 5, 2008, at a Joan Crawford festival at the University of California, Los Angeles. The color footage shows a woman happy and relaxed, enjoying her private life with her lover and (by 1942) two babies. Holding the camera, McCabe focused on Joan strolling in the woods, paddling a canoe, reclining on the grass and
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