Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light

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Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light

Screen-capture
Directed by Tom Neff
Produced by Tom Neff
Madeline Bell
Louise LeQuire
Written by Tom Neff
Music by John Rosasco
Cinematography Tom Neff
Editing by Barry Rubinow
Distributed by Image productions
Running time 30 minutes
Country United States
Language English
IMDb profile

Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light (1999) is a documentary film, 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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[edit] Synopsis

Louise Dahl-Wolfe was an important woman in the history of photography, and this short documentary film on her life 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 Robson, Bette Davis, and others.

[edit] Background

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

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[edit] 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]

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light at the Internet Movie Database.
  2. ^ Colorado Public Television. KBDI-TV web site, 2008. Last accessed: April 27, 2008.
  3. ^ DOC: The Documentary Channel. DOC web site, 2008. Last accessed: April 27, 2008.

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