Irving Reis

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1906-05-07

Deathday 1953-07-03 (47 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Irving Reis

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Irving Reis, (born May 7, 1906, in New York City – died July 3, 1953, in Woodland Hills, California) was a radio program producer and director, and a film director. Irving Reis was born into a Jewish family. Reis began his career as a motion picture photographer. The most notable of his screen efforts was being one of the photographers for The Hollywood Revue of 1929. A 1931 notice in Variety declared that he was transitioning into a playwright. By 1933, Variety took notice of his radio play St. Louis Blues. His radio play Meridian 7-1212 first broadcast on January 24, 1935, received an "above par" comment from Variety. Observing that he wrote and produced the play, the unnamed reviewer noted the numerous radio effects, and that compared to his two previous radio plays, this was the best. Reis was the creator of Columbia Workshop, the experimental anthology program on the radio, and its initial broadcast took place on July 18, 1936. Reis departed for Hollywood on January 1, 1938 where he became a scriptwriter for Paramount Pictures. In November 1939, Variety announced that Reis would be taking 10 weeks off from his script writing at Paramount to study film direction. In February 1940, Variety announced that Reis had left Paramount to begin directing at RKO Pictures. Among his motion picture credits are Enchantment, Roseanna McCoy, The Big Street, and the screen adaptation of Arthur Miller's play All My Sons (1948). Reis also directed the movie The Four Poster, based on Jan de Hartog's play The Fourposter. Reis married Meta Arenson in Tijuana on August 10, 1938. He died leaving his wife and three children. Reis is buried in the Jewish Cemetery Hillside Memorial Park.

Known For

Director

1952
The Four Poster

as Director

1951
New Mexico

as Director

1951
Of Men and Music

as Director

1950
Three Husbands

as Director

1949
1949
Roseanna McCoy

as Director

1948
Enchantment

as Director

1948
All My Sons

as Director

1946
Crack-Up

as Director

1942
1942
1942
The Big Street

as Director

1941
The Gay Falcon

as Director

1941
Footlight Fever

as Director

1941
Weekend for Three

as Director

1940
One Crowded Night

as Director

1940
I'm Still Alive

as Director

Writer

1944
Gambler's Choice

as Screenplay

1939
King of Chinatown

as Screenplay

1939
1938
1938

Camera

1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929

as Director of Photography