[5] Reis was the creator of Columbia Workshop, the experimental anthology program on the radio, and its initial broadcast took place on July 18, 1936.

[7] In November 1939, Variety announced that Reis would be taking 10 weeks off from his script writing at Paramount to study film direction.

[8] In February 1940, Variety announced that Reis had left Paramount to begin directing at RKO Pictures.

[9] 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.