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 Param…

Directed

1. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) — Director
2. Crack-Up (1946) — Director
3. All My Sons (1948) — Director
4. The Falcon Takes Over (1942) — Director
5. The Gay Falcon (1941) — Director
6. The Big Street (1942) — Director
7. A Date with the Falcon (1942) — Director
8. Three Husbands (1950) — Director
9. Enchantment (1948) — Director
10. The Four Poster (1952) — Director
11. New Mexico (1951) — Director
12. Roseanna McCoy (1949) — Director
13. Weekend for Three (1941) — Director
14. Dancing in the Dark (1949) — Director
15. One Crowded Night (1940) — Director
16. Footlight Fever (1941) — Director
17. I'm Still Alive (1940) — Director
18. Of Men and Music (1951) — Director