Allen Rivkin
Allen Rivkin (20 November 1903 – 17 February 1990) was an American screenwriter.
Rivkin was a advertising copy writer, who went to Hollywood and joined the RKO Pictures publicity department. He formed a film writing team with P. J. Wolfson, who got a writer’s contract on the strength of "Bodies Are Dust". They started at Universal Pictures the same day. Through a luncheon conversation that day decided to collaborate on a story. In less than two years the pair wrote ten screen plays. They later wrote for the B. P. Schulberg company at Paramount Pictures. He was one of the co-founders of the Screenwriters Guild, later the Writers Guild of America. He wrote several of his scripts with his wife, Laura Kerr.
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Films (50)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Thanks
The Big Operator
1959 · Screenplay
Girls on the Loose
1958 · Screenplay
Live Fast, Die Young
1958 · Screenplay
The Road to Denver
1955 · Screenplay
The Eternal Sea
1955 · Screenplay
Timberjack
1955 · Screenplay
Prisoner of War
1954 · Writer
Battle Circus
1953 · Story
It's a Big Country
1951 · Story
The Strip
1951 · Writer
Grounds for Marriage
1951 · Screenplay
Gambling House
1950 · Screenplay
Tension
1949 · Screenplay
My Dream Is Yours
1949 · Adaptation
The Farmer's Daughter
1947 · Writer
The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947 · Writer
Dead Reckoning
1946 · Adaptation
The Thrill of Brazil
1946 · Screenplay
Till the End of Time
1946 · Screenplay
Sunday Punch
1942 · Writer
Kid Glove Killer
1942 · Screenplay
Joe Smith, American
1942 · Screenplay
Highway West
1941 · Screenplay
Singapore Woman
1941 · Screenplay, Producer
Dancing on a Dime
1940 · Screenplay
Typhoon
1940 · Screenplay
It Could Happen to You
1939 · Writer
Let Us Live
1939 · Screenplay
Straight, Place and Show
1938 · Screenplay
Love Under Fire
1937 · Writer
This Is My Affair
1937 · Story, Screenplay
Love Is News
1937 · Additional Writing
Half Angel
1936 · Screenplay
Champagne Charlie
1936 · Screenplay
Bad Boy
1935 · Screenplay
Black Sheep
1935 · Screenplay
Our Little Girl
1935 · Screenplay
Cheating Cheaters
1934 · Writer
Dancing Lady
1933 · Screenplay
Meet the Baron
1933 · Screenplay
Headline Shooter
1933 · Screenplay
Picture Snatcher
1933 · Adaptation
The Devil Is Driving
1932 · Screenplay
Madison Square Garden
1932 · Writer
70,000 Witnesses
1932 · Additional Dialogue
What Price Hollywood?
1932 · Screenplay
Is My Face Red?
1932 · Theatre Play
Night World
1932 · Story
Are These Our Children?
1931 · Minor Role
