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,[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]
Career
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).
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 in February 1936.[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, California, 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.[citation needed]
