Robert Riskin (March 30, 1897 – September 20, 1955) was an American screenwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with Frank Capra. Robert Riskin...
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sustainability. Riskin was born in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, the daughter of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin, whose films...
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Everett Riskin, American film producer Jessica Riskin, American historian of science Neta Riskin (born 1976), Israeli actress Robert Riskin, American...
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Robert Riskin and the neurosurgeon Sanford Rothenberg (January 28, 1919 – January 4, 1991). She had three children: Susan Saunders, Victoria Riskin,...
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It Happened One Night (category Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin)
falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins...
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Meet John Doe (category Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin)
comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, written by Robert Riskin, and starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward Arnold. The film...
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Lost Horizon (1937 film) (category Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin)
adventure drama fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton. The film...
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Home January 25, 1945 Richard Thorpe Robert Riskin and Dwight Taylor Robert Riskin and Harry Kurnitz Everett Riskin Song of the Thin Man August 28, 1947...
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You Can't Take It with You (film) (category Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin)
Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play of the same name by George...
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Platinum Blonde (film) (category Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin)
at AllMovie Platinum Blonde at Rotten Tomatoes Six Screen Plays by Robert Riskin, Edited and Introduced by Pat McGilligan, Berkeley: University of California...
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During his years at Columbia, Capra worked often with screenwriter Robert Riskin (husband of Fay Wray), and cameraman Joseph Walker. In many of Capra's...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (category Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin)
serial form in The American Magazine, the screenplay was written by Robert Riskin in his fifth collaboration with Frank Capra. Longfellow Deeds is the...
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both original and adapted screenplays. The Academy also announced that Robert Riskin came in second and Paul Green and Sonya Levien third. The Academy also...
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where he faces a world of corruption and deceit. Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin were able to use Cooper's well-established screen persona as the "quintessential...
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Panavision. The screenplay by Hal Kanter and Harry Tugend was based on Robert Riskin's screenplay for the 1933 film Lady for a Day, which was adapted from...
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Brill Screenplay by Tim Herlihy Based on Mr. Deeds Goes to Town by Robert Riskin Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland Produced by Sid Ganis Jack Giarraputo...
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Lady for a Day (category Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin)
pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1929 short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon. It...
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Mister 880 (category Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin)
(Edmund Gwenn) Nominated – Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay (Robert Riskin) "Top Grosses of 1950". Variety. January 3, 1951. p. 58. Aubrey Solomon...
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The Thin Man Goes Home (category Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin)
Reporter news item, wartime liquor rationing prompted producer Everett Riskin to eliminate the heavy drinking that had been an integral part of Nick and...
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and Sam Hardy. Based on the play Bless You Sister by John Meehan and Robert Riskin, the film is about a clergyman’s daughter who becomes disillusioned...
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American Madness (category Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin)
Robert Emmett O'Connor as Inspector American Madness marked the first in a series of legendary collaborations between Frank Capra and Robert Riskin....
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Variety. June 22, 2009. Retrieved January 26, 2024. Victoria Riskin. Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir. Random House 2019 p320 Cox, Stephen (1991)...
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (category Films with screenplays by Robert Rossen)
wealthy aunt years prior. The screenplay was written by Robert Rossen (and an uncredited Robert Riskin), adapted from the short story "Love Lies Bleeding"...
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motherhood. On 2 February 2014, Fernanda married American entrepreneur Robert Riskin in São Luís Gongaza Chapel, Maringá. On 22 June 2015, she gave birth...
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of Gamblers after a private interview on a Paramount set with director Robert Florey, who "specialised in giving jobs to destitute and sufficiently grateful...
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starring Barbara Stanwyck and Regis Toomey. Written by Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin, based on a story by Sarah Y. Mason, the film is about a poor hardworking...
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Actor: Clark Gable Best Actress: Claudette Colbert Best Adaptation: Robert Riskin 1940: Pinocchio (2) Best Original Score: Leigh Harline, Paul Smith and...
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Congressman Brad Pye Jr. (1931–2020), sports journalist and broadcaster Robert Riskin (1897–1955), screenwriter Sugar Ray Robinson (1921–1989), World Champion...
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Capra movie American Madness, from the original screenplay Faith by Robert Riskin. Bank of America merged with NationsBank of Charlotte, North Carolina...
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Russell, Damien Chazelle, Anthony Minghella, George Seaton, Richard Brooks, Robert Rossen and William A. Wellman. Sylvester Stallone is credited for writing...
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