Highest rated movie: Enchantment (1948)
Lowest rated movie: A Date with the Falcon (1942)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Irving Reis? Cinafilm has a total of 169 reviews across 8 movies directed by Irving Reis.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 61%.
Enchantment is Irving Reis's highest rated movie, with a score of 70% based on 10 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Irving Reis is A Date with the Falcon, with a score of 54% based on 2 reviews.
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.
ving 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.
Irving Reis has directed films starring Hans Conried, Frank O'Connor, George Sanders and Allen Jenkins.
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