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 by | Tom Neff |
| Written by | Tom Neff |
| Produced by | Tom Neff Madeline Bell Louise LeQuire |
| Starring | Louise Dahl-Wolfe Lauren Bacall |
| Cinematography | Tom Neff |
| Edited by | Barry Rubinow |
| Music by | John Rosasco |
| Distributed by | Image productions |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Synopsis
editThis 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
editThe documentary took over ten years to complete and features the only surviving modern footage of Dahl-Wolfe, including extensive interviews.
Interviews
edit- Louise Dahl-Wolfe
- Lauren Bacall
- Babs Simpson
Distribution
editThe 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
edit- ^ Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light at IMDb.
- ^ Colorado Public Television. KBDI-TV web site, 2008. Last accessed: April 27, 2008.
- ^ DOC: The Documentary Channel Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine. DOC web site, 2008. Last accessed: April 27, 2008.
- ^ "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.
External links
edit- Tom Neff official web site (see Films for film clip)
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light at IMDb