Allen Rivkin
Allen Rivkin was an American screenwriter.
Rivkin was an 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, they 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.
Select credits
- Picture Snatcher
- Headline Shooter
- Dancing Lady
- Highway West
- Joe Smith, American
- Kid Glove Killer
- Till the End of Time
- The Farmer's Daughter
- Tension
- ''Prisoner of War''