Career
In 1925, Rene Harris co-produced the first play by Moss Hart, The Beloved Bandit, though it was not a success. He had a brother William Harris Junior. Harris worked for his father in the theatrical business in Boston for a number of years before starting out on his own producing plays in 1901.
He managed such stars as Amelia Bingham and Robert Edeson.
He leased and managed the Hudson Theatre in New York and in 1911 built the Folies Bergere Theatre. Harris perished along with over 1500 other souls in the Titanic"s sinking, April 15 1912.
His body was lost at sea. If it was recovered and brought to Halifax by one of the cable ships sent out to look for bodies, it was never identified as such.
Selected plays produced by Harris Soldiers of Fortune (1901) Strongheart (1905) The Lion and the Mouse (1905) The Chorus Lady (1906) (*made star of Rose Stahl) The Struggle Everlasting (1907) The Traveling Salesman (1908) Pierre of the Plains (1908) The Third Degree (1909) (*made star of Helen Ware) Such a Little Queen (1909)(*made star of Elsie Ferguson) The Arab (1911).
