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Allen Rivkin

Writer, Producer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born November 20, 1903Died February 17, 1990 (86 years)
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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Known For

  • Tension
  • The Farmer's Daughter
  • Dancing Lady
  • Picture Snatcher
  • Dead Reckoning
  • My Dream Is Yours
  • Battle Circus
  • Till the End of Time
  • Kid Glove Killer
  • The Eternal Sea
  • Our Little Girl
  • Let Us Live
  • The Accused
  • Love Is News
  • Operator 13
  • The Road to Denver

Allen Rivkin Filmography

1959
The Big Operator · as Screenplay
1958
Girls on the Loose · as Screenplay
1958
Live Fast, Die Young · as Screenplay
1955
The Road to Denver · as Screenplay
1955
The Eternal Sea · as Screenplay
1955
Timberjack · as Screenplay
1954
1951
1951
Grounds for Marriage · as Screenplay
1950
Gambling House · as Screenplay
1949
Tension · as Screenplay
1947
1947
1946
The Thrill of Brazil · as Screenplay
1946
Till the End of Time · as Screenplay
1945
1942
Kid Glove Killer · as Screenplay
1942
1942
Joe Smith, American · as Screenplay
1941
Highway West · as Screenplay
1941
Bad Men of Missouri · as Contributing Writer
1941
Singapore Woman · as Screenplay
1940
Typhoon · as Screenplay
1939
Let Us Live · as Screenplay
1939
1938
Straight Place and Show · as Screenplay
1938
The Baroness and the Butler · as Contributing Writer
1937
1936
Champagne Charlie · as Screenplay
1935
Bad Boy · as Screenplay
1935
Black Sheep · as Screenplay
1935
Our Little Girl · as Screenplay
1934
1933
Dancing Lady · as Screenplay
1933
Meet the Baron · as Screenplay
1933
Headline Shooter · as Screenplay
1932
The Devil Is Driving · as Screenplay
1932
What Price Hollywood? · as Screenplay

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