Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light

Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light

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Directed by Tom Neff
Produced by Tom Neff
Madeline Bell
Louise LeQuire
Written by Tom Neff
Starring Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Lauren Bacall
Music by John Rosasco
Cinematography Tom Neff
Edited by Barry Rubinow
Distributed by Image productions
Running time
 30 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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]

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

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