Allen Rivkin (20 November 1903 – 17 February 1990) 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".
[1] Through a luncheon conversation that day, they decided to collaborate on a story.
[1] In less than two years the pair wrote ten screen plays.