Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light

Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light is a 1999 documentary film about Louise Dahl-Wolfe, an important woman in the history of photography. It was written and directed by Tom Neff, and produced by Neff and Madeline Bell, who previously collaborated on the Oscar nominated short-documentary Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse (1986).[1]

Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light
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Directed byTom Neff
Produced byTom Neff
Madeline Bell
Louise LeQuire
Written byTom Neff
StarringLouise Dahl-Wolfe
Lauren Bacall
Music byJohn Rosasco
CinematographyTom Neff
Edited byBarry Rubinow
Distributed byImage productions
Running time
30 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Synopsis

This short documentary film on the life of Louise Dahl-Wolfe draws upon her art and her personality. The documentary reviews how Dahl-Wolfe "discovered" Lauren Bacall, who at the time was a young actress (seventeen years-of-age) and worked as a model. It was Dahl-Wolfe's photos of Bacall that film producer Harry Warner saw, and subsequently asked Bacall that she come to Hollywood for a screen test. As a result, Bacall was cast opposite Humphrey Bogart in the film To Have and Have Not (1944).

Dahl-Wolfe also photographed: Tallulah Bankhead, Spencer Tracy, Eudora Welty, Paul Robeson, Bette Davis, and others.

Background

The documentary took over ten years to complete and features the only surviving modern footage of Dahl-Wolfe, including extensive interviews.

Interviews

Distribution

The film has been shown on selected PBS television stations and was the first original production of the new digital channel: DOC: The Documentary Channel [2][3] and was screened at the Bel Air Film Festival.[4]

References
  1. Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light at IMDb.
  2. Colorado Public Television. KBDI-TV web site, 2008. Last accessed: April 27, 2008.
  3. DOC: The Documentary Channel Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine. DOC web site, 2008. Last accessed: April 27, 2008.
  4. "Media Bistro -Bel Air Graduates To Major Leagues -- Gets Its First Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2009-12-19. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
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