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Irving Reis (May 7, 1906 in
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– July 3, 1953 in Woodland Hills, California) was a
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producer and director, and a film director.


Biography

Irving Reis was born into a Jewish family. Reis began his career as a motion picture photographer.Reis, Irving, ''Internet Movie Database'' (accessed December 28, 2015).
/ref> 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
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. 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
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. 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''.


Personal

Reis married writer Meta Arenson in
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on August 10, 1938. He died of cancer, leaving his wife and three children."Irving Reis, Director, Dies," ''Boxoffice'' (July 11, 1953), p. 35. Reis is buried in the Jewish Cemetery Hillside Memorial Park.


Selected filmography

* '' Too Much Business'' (1922) * '' The Ladder Jinx'' (1922) * '' Breaking Into Society'' (1923) * '' The Business of Love'' (1925) * '' Trout Fishing'' (1932, short) * '' One Crowded Night'' (1940) * '' I'm Still Alive'' (1940) * '' Footlight Fever'' (1941) * '' The Gay Falcon'' (1941) * '' Weekend for Three'' (1941) * '' A Date with the Falcon'' (1942) * '' The Falcon Takes Over'' (1942) * '' The Big Street'' (1942) * '' Hitler's Children'' (1943) * '' Crack-Up'' (1946) * '' The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer'' (1947) * '' All My Sons'' (1948) * '' Enchantment'' (1948) * '' Roseanna McCoy'' (1949) * '' Dancing in the Dark'' (1949) * '' Of Men and Music'' (1951, documentary) * '' Three Husbands'' (1951) * ''
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'' (1951) * '' The Four Poster'' (1952)


See also

* Columbia Workshop


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reis, Irving 1906 births 1953 deaths Writers from New York City American radio directors American radio producers American male screenwriters Jewish American screenwriters Burials at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery Film directors from New York City Screenwriters from New York (state) 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters 20th-century American Jews