Alice Reinheart

Alice Reinheart (May 6, 1910 – June 10, 1993) was an American actress, best known for her work in old-time radio. She also appeared on television. An article in the September 1940 issue of Radio and Television Mirror magazine described her as "pert, vivacious, beautiful and talented in writing and music as well as acting."

Early years Reinheart was born May 6, 1910 in San Francisco, California and grew up in Winnemucca, Nevada. studied drama and languages at the University of California and studied piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Radio Reinheart's debut on radio came in 1928 on KYA in San Francisco, California. She went on to appear in both soap operas and prime-time dramatic programs. A 1936 news brief reported, "She has appeared in as many as 12 programs in one week." She was perhaps best known for her role of Chichi in Life Can Be Beautiful (1938-1946).

Reinheart's other work on radio included roles in One Man's Family, Nona from Nowhere, Wendy Warren and the News, Young Doctor Malone, Treasury Agent, Front Page Farrell, Romance, Inc., Call the Police, Casey, Press Photographer, Her Honor, Nancy James, John's Other Wife, Gang Busters, Molle Mystery Theater (05/17/1946 episode "Killer Come Back to Me"), On Broadway, and The Court of Human Relations. She and her husband, Les Tremayne, had a morning talk show, The Tremaynes, in the late 1940s.

Reinheart's vocal talents for radio included her ability to scream in a way "fit to send cold shivers up and down the backs of the unseen audience, fit to make one's hair stand on end." A newspaper article reported, "Alice Reinheart has vocal range of three and one-half octaves [and] can scream ten full notes above high C" and that she "can drive the studio control needle up to 60 decibels, which is tops for the measuring instrument."

Stage Beginning when she was 15, Reinheart acted for two years in stock productions with the Players Guild Her Broadway credits include Papavert (1931-1932), Foolscap (1933), The Mask and the Face (1933), The Drums Begin (1933), The Wooden Slipper (1934), Journey to Jerusalem (1940), and Leaf and Bough (1949).

Film During a trip abroad, Reinheart "made moving picture shorts in English, German, and French." Her first appearance in an American film was in The Sky Hawk, produced at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio

Television Reinheart appeared in a number of television programs, including Dragnet, The Donna Reed Show, The Danny Thomas Show, Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie, and Mission Impossible. Reinheart married William Burke Miller, who had won a Pulitzer Prize when he was a newspaper reporter. They met when he was night manager at NBC. Her second marriage was to actor Les Tremayne on December 11, 1945. The union ended in divorce in 1962.

In the 1970s, Reinheart moved to Farmington, Connecticut. She was president of the Farmington Historical Society. She had no survivors.