[4] She moved to Los Angeles with her mother and sister after high school, to seek a career in the film business.

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 in February 1936.

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.