When Reynold Brown returned to California from New York in 1951 he brought his small family of three children to Temple City and moved in with his mother and two sisters, for whom he was also the sole means of support. At first he was to return to take a position with North American Aviation but found he had become accustomed to the freedom of doing free-lance art and quit North American. He took a part time teaching position with Art Center College of Design. There he did a show for the school of his work. Mischa Kallis, art director at Universal attended the show and approached Brown on the possibility of doing a poster. Brown accepted and did his first poster, "The World in His Arms", featuring Gregory Peck and Ann Blyth. Brown was concerned that perhaps the work was not adequate, but Universal liked the work and continued to commission pieces from Brown. Soon the other studios would also seek out Brown. Over the next 20 years Brown would work on the promotion campaigns for around 275 movies. Although most of his work appeared on posters, it also appeared on billboards, in newspaper ads, on movie trailers and promotional books.