Everett Riskin (1895-1982) was an American film producer, best known for his work at Columbia and

MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ...

, where he specialised in comedies. He was the brother of screenwriter

Robert Riskin Robert Riskin (March 30, 1897 – September 20, 1955)"Robert Riskin, Who Won 'Oscar' For 'It Happened Ohe Night,' Dies." ''New York Times.'' September 22, 1955. was an American Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright, bes ...

.Patrick McGilligan, "Introduction", ''Six Screenplays by Robert Riskin'', Edited and Introduced by Pat McGilligan UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford 199
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Partial filmography

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The Awful Truth ''The Awful Truth'' is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Based on the 1923 play ''The Awful Truth'' by Arthur Richman, the film recounts how a distrustful rich couple begins d ...

'' (1937) *'' I Am the Law'' (1938) *''Holiday'' (1938) *'' The Amazing Mr. Williams'' (1939) *'' Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' (1941) *''

A Guy Named Joe ''A Guy Named Joe'' is a 1943 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Victor Fleming. The film was produced by Everett Riskin, and starred Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, and Van Johnson. The screenplay, written by Dalton Trumbo and Freder ...

'' (1943) *'' Kismet'' (1944) *''

The Thin Man Goes Home ''The Thin Man Goes Home'' is a 1945 comedy- mystery film directed by Richard Thorpe. It is the fifth of the six '' Thin Man'' films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Dashiell Hammett's dapper ex-private detective Nick Charles and his ...

'' (1945) *'' High Barbaree'' (1947) *''

Julia Misbehaves ''Julia Misbehaves'' is a 1948 American romantic comedy film starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as a married couple who are separated by the man's snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when the daughter whom the man has rais ...

'' (1948) *'' Thunder in the East'' (1952)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Riskin, Everett American film producers 1895 births 1982 deaths