Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light

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Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light
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Directed by Tom Neff
Written byTom Neff
Produced byTom Neff
Madeline Bell
Louise LeQuire
Starring Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Lauren Bacall
CinematographyTom Neff
Edited by Barry Rubinow
Music byJohn Rosasco
Distributed byImage productions
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
30 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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]

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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]

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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.