Maxine Reiner

Maxine Frances Reiner was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[1] 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.[2][3]

Reiner modeled for advertisements and in swimsuits as a young woman.[4] 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,[5] and later with Universal Pictures.[6] Her first film was Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935). She also had screen credits in Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936),[7] Sins of Man (1936), and The Girl on the Front Page (1936),[8] and smaller uncredited roles in It Had to Happen (1936) and Flying Hostess (1936).

Reiner married a friend of her parents',[9] businessman Joseph I. Myerson, in 1935;[10][11] 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.[12] Her second husband was film producer Harry Eliot Sokolov. They married in 1937,[13] had a son, Thomas, born in 1943, and lived in Beverly Hills with her mother and younger sister; they divorced in 1950.[14] She was linked in gossip columns with author Max Rubinstein in 1951.[15] Her third husband was Frank M. Grossman; they were married briefly in the 1950s. 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.[16] Her younger sister was cookbook author Naomi Shuwarger.[17][18]

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• Maxine Reiner at IMDb
• A Maxine Reiner cigarette card, in the New York Public Library Digital Collections
• "Dixie Dunbar, Maxine Reiner, and Helen Wood get their contracts with Twentieth Century Fox approved" (1935), a photograph in UCLA Library Special Collections