Robert Riskin was an American screenwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with Frank Capra.
Riskin at the 1934 Academy Awards
It Happened One Night (1934)
Frank Russell Capra was an Italian-born American film director, producer, and screenwriter who was the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, his rags-to-riches story has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
Capra, c. 1930s
Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper, Irving Bacon, Barbara Stanwyck, and James Gleason in Meet John Doe
Capra editing film as a Major during World War II
Capra receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from General George C. Marshall, 1945