Maxine Reiner
{{Short description|American actress (1916–2003)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Maxine Reiner
| image = Maxine Reiner publicity.jpg
| alt = A young white woman with an elaborate looped hairstyle, bare shoulders and arms clasped before her, in a glamor-style publicity photo
| caption = Publicity photo of Reiner in 1935
| other_names = Maxine Sokolov
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|03|16|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|06|19|1916|03|16|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1935–1936
| notable_works =
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Joseph I. Myerson|1935|1936|reason=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Harry Eliot Sokolov|1937|1950|reason=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Frank M. Grossman
|1950}}
}}
| children = 1
| relatives =
}}
Maxine Reiner (March 16, 1916 – June 19, 2003) was an American actress. She was more noted for off-screen marital troubles than for her film performances.
Early life and education
Reiner was born in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania,{{Cite news |last=Meehan |first=Jeannette |date=1936-05-10 |title=Look out Sirens, Here comes Competition! |pages=40 |work=Arizona Republic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97934727/look-out-sirens-here-comes/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}} the daughter of Bernard Reiner and Ida Eisenberg Reiner. Her family was Jewish. Her father owned a chain of women's specialty shops, and his father was a jeweler.
She attended a school of elocution and dramatic art in Philadelphia, and acted in plays there.{{Cite news |date=1935-04-06 |title=Girl Known Here Wins Film Place |pages=6 |work=Lancaster New Era |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97935029/girl-known-here-wins-film-place/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1935-06-08 |title=Phila. Girl in Movies Announces Betrothal |pages=17 |work=The Morning Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97935728/phila-girl-in-movies-announces/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Career
Reiner modeled for advertisements and in swimsuits as a young woman.{{Cite news |date=June 11, 1935 |title=Rubber Bathing Suit Resembles Crepe |pages=12 |work=Greenfield Daily Recorder Gazette |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-jun-11-1935-3104467/ |access-date=March 19, 2022 |via=NewspaperArchive.com}} She moved to Los Angeles with her mother and sister after high school, to seek a career in the film business. She was soon under contract with Paramount Pictures,{{Cite news |date=1935-12-07 |title=Win Contracts, Vow No Wedding |pages=1 |work=The Evening Independent |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97935471/win-contracts-vow-no-wedding/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}} and later with Universal Pictures.{{Cite news |date=1936-06-22 |title=Maxine Reiner signs 6-year film contract |pages=1 |work=The Daily Advocate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97935871/maxine-reiner-signs-6-year-film-contract/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}} Her first film was Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935).
She also had screen credits in Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936),{{Cite news |last=Tinée |first=Mae |date=1936-05-23 |title=Charlie Chan Runs into Job at the Circus |pages=19 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97936001/charlie-chan-runs-into-job-at-the/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}} Sins of Man (1936), and The Girl on the Front Page (1936),{{Cite news |date=1936-11-07 |title=Reel Reviews |pages=8 |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97935620/reel-reviews/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}} and smaller uncredited roles in It Had to Happen (1936) and Flying Hostess (1936).
Personal life
Reiner married a friend of her parents',{{Cite news |last=Kendall |first=Read |date=1935-05-28 |title=Around and Around in Hollywood |pages=15 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97935353/around-and-around-in-hollywoodread/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}} businessman Joseph I. Myerson, in 1935;{{Cite news |date=1935-07-04 |title=Film Player to be Bride |pages=22 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97934934/film-player-to-be-bride/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=July 11, 1935 |title=19-Year-Old Girl Gives Up First Film Role to Marry |pages=3 |work=San Pedro News Pilot |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19350711.2.48&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Maxine+Reiner-------1 |access-date=March 19, 2022}} they divorced in 1936, in a contested trial that made headlines. "She said she earned more money than I did and didn't need me," Myerson told The Los Angeles Times in February 1936.{{Cite news |date=1936-02-18 |title=Stand Taken by Actress; Maxine Reiner Says Husband Cruel at Contested Divorce Trial |pages=22 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97934306/stand-taken-by-actress-maxine-reiner/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Her second husband was film producer Harry Eliot Sokolov. They married in 1937,{{Cite news |date=1937-06-03 |title=The Hollywood Roundup |pages=2 |work=The Columbus Telegram |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97934229/the-hollywood-roundup/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}} had a son, Thomas, born in 1943, and lived in Beverly Hills, California, with her mother and younger sister; they divorced in 1950.{{Cite news |date=1950-08-10 |title=Ex-Actress Divorces Los Angeles Attorney |pages=38 |work=Ventura County Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97933784/ex-actress-divorces-los-angeles-attorney/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}
She was linked in gossip columns with author Max Rubinstein in 1951.{{Cite news |last=Carroll |first=Harrison |date=1951-01-01 |title=Behind the Scenes in Hollywood |pages=6 |work=Lancaster Eagle-Gazette |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97934071/behind-the-scenes-in-hollywoodharrison/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}} Her third husband was Frank M. Grossman; they were married briefly in the 1950s.{{Citation needed |date=February 2024}}
Death
Reiner died in Los Angeles in 2003, aged 87 years. Her son, Thomas R. Sokolov, is a judge on the Superior Court of Los Angeles County.{{Cite web |title=Thomas R. Sokolov |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Thomas_R._Sokolov |access-date=2022-03-19 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}} Her younger sister was cookbook author Naomi Shuwarger.{{Cite news |date=1942-04-20 |title=Naomi Reiner Becomes Bride |pages=29 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97941079/naomi-reiner-becomes-bride/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1990-07-05 |title=Restaurant Touring |pages=2 |work=East Review |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97941267/restaurant-touring/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}
References
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{{Portal|Pennsylvania|Film}}
External links
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- {{IMDb name|0718009}}
- [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-b1fe-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99#/?uuid=510d47dd-b1fd-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 A Maxine Reiner cigarette card], in the New York Public Library Digital Collections
- [https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/zz002hn4nk/ "Dixie Dunbar, Maxine Reiner, and Helen Wood get their contracts with Twentieth Century Fox approved"] (1935), a photograph in UCLA Library Special Collections
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