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
Release date	1999 (1999)
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]

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.

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

• Louise Dahl-Wolfe
• Lauren Bacall
• Babs Simpson

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]

• Tom Neff official web site (see Films for film clip)
• Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light at IMDb