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in '' A Dog's Life'' in 1918 and '' The Kid'' in 1921. He directed

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(Keaton also co-directed it with him) in '' Steamboat Bill, Jr.'' (1928). During the late 1920s, through the 1940s, Reisner was under contract to

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. In 1930, he directed '' Chasing Rainbows'', a musical which starred Bessie Love and Charles King. He directed '' The Big Store'' (1941), the

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' last film for MGM. Reisner died of a heart attack in

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in 1962 at the age of 75.

Filmography

As actor

* '' A Dog's Life'' (1918) * '' The Kid'' (1921) * '' The Pilgrim'' (1923) * '' Hollywood'' (1923) * '' Her Temporary Husband'' (1923) * '' Breaking Into Society'' (1923) * '' Fight and Win'' (1924) * '' A Self-Made Failure'' (1924) * '' Justice of the Far North'' (1925)

As director

* ''

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'' (1925) * '' Oh! What a Nurse!'' (1926) * '' The Better 'Ole'' (1926) * '' What Every Girl Should Know'' (1927) * '' The Missing Link'' (1927) * '' The Fortune Hunter'' (1927) * '' Steamboat Bill, Jr.'' (1928) * '' Fools for Luck'' (1928) * '' Brotherly Love'' (1928) * '' China Bound'' (1929) * '' Noisy Neighbors'' (1929) * '' The Hollywood Revue of 1929'' (1929) * '' Chasing Rainbows'' (1930) * '' Caught Short'' (1930) * '' Love in the Rough'' (1930) * ''

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'' (1930) * '' Reducing'' (1931) * '' Stepping Out'' (1931) * ''

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'' (1931) * '' Flying High'' (1931) * '' Divorce in the Family'' (1932) * '' The Chief'' (1933) * '' Whistling in the Dark'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1934) * '' The Show-Off'' (1934) * '' Student Tour'' (1934) * '' The Winning Ticket'' (1935) * '' It's in the Air'' (1935) * '' Everybody Dance'' (1936) * '' Murder Goes to College'' (1937) * '' Sophie Lang Goes West'' (1937) * '' Manhattan Merry-Go-Round'' (1937) * '' Winter Carnival'' (1939) * '' The Big Store'' (1941) * '' This Time for Keeps'' (1942) * '' Harrigan's Kid'' (1943) * '' Meet the People'' (1943) * '' Lost in a Harem'' (1944) * '' In This Corner'' (1948) * '' The Cobra Strikes'' (1948) * '' The Traveling Saleswoman'' (1950)

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* 1887 births 1962 deaths American male film actors American male silent film actors American male screenwriters Male actors from Minneapolis 20th-century American male actors Film directors from Minnesota Screenwriters from Minnesota 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub