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Allen Rivkin
Allen Rivkin

Allen Rivkin

  • Department:Writing
  • Place of birth:Hayward, Wisconsin, USA
  • Birthday:11/20/1903
  • Deathday:2/17/1990
  • Popularity:1

Biography:

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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.… Expand

Acting and producing career