Quotes

My father's name was Rex Reason. I am a junior, and he and his new wife and family were over in Europe. They came across a theater marquee that listed my name, which of course was also his name. Not having kept in touch with what I had been doing, and to all of a sudden see "Rex Reason" on the marquee, well, it must have been an interesting moment.

Back when we were in our 20s I would sometimes get fan mail saying that they saw me in such and such play some years back and that my name then was Rhodes Reason and why did I change it to Rex. Or people would think we were twins. -- RR, on his resemblance to younger brother Rhodes Reason

One morning while we were in Moab shooting Taza, Son of Cochise (1954), Rock Hudson came in and he had a newspaper in hand. He says to me, "Hi Bart!" I said, "What?" Rock told me that I was now Bart Roberts. The studio had just changed my name. He handed me the paper which had a publicity story in it, using my new name. Later, I went to the studio's head of production...and told him that I had read about my name change but that I would prefer to keep my name as Rex Reason. Well, it stayed Bart Roberts for the Taza movie and for my next film Yankee Pasha (1954) but I got my name back when I made my third film there This Island Earth (1955).

I was married. And I was strict with my marriage. There was no playing around. But there certainly was temptation; that was always there...There was a freedom there and opportunity for a lot of fiddling around, and that did go on. There were times I would go back to my wardrobe to change into my civilian clothes and I would find a note in one of my shoes from one of the gals. I would leave that dressing room and literally run to my car and home to my wife and children!

The mutant in This Island Earth (1955) I didn't much care for. I felt it looked too much like it had a human body. It should have been changed, because if you look at its head it was wonderful, and it had claws and such, but then it had human feet. It didn't jibe, but I thought it would be accepted, which it was...I thought the lagoon creature in The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) was handled very well, particularly in the underwater sequences. I think the guys in those costumes did a great job. That is a heck of a thing to be inside of something like that and have to exert some kind of an expression on the outside.