Lamar Trotti
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- October 18, 1900
- Died
- August 28, 1952 (aged 51)
- Birthplace
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lamar Jefferson Trotti (October 18, 1900 – August 28, 1952) was an American screenwriter, producer, and motion picture executive. In the silent film era, he was a reporter for the daily Atlanta Georgian, where he interviewed many show business people, such as Viola Dana. Later, Trotti became an executive at Fox Film Corporation in 1933 and after its 1935 merger with Twentieth Century Pictures to become 20th Century Fox, he remained with the company until his death. He wrote about fifty films for the studio, producing many of them. He only wrote one screenplay for another studio, You Can't Buy Everything (1934) for MGM. He won an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1944 for Wilson and was nominated for Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) and There's No Business Like Show Business (1952). He received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, the lifetime achievement award of the WGA, in 1983. Trotti was in ill heath towards the end of his life and had taken six months leave from Fox when he died of a heart attack at hospital near his summer home in St Malo. He was survived by a widow, a son and a daughter. His eldest son had died in a car crash in 1950. Henry Koster later wrote that he thought Trotti died of "a broken heart" because of his son's death. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Known For
Filmography
The Jackals
Movie · Screenplay
There's No Business Like Show Business
Movie · Story
O. Henry's Full House
Movie · Screenplay
Stars and Stripes Forever
Movie · Screenplay
With a Song in My Heart
Movie · Writer
As Young as You Feel
Movie · Writer
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Movie · Screenplay
Cheaper by the Dozen
Movie · Screenplay
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Movie · Screenplay
You're My Everything
Movie · Writer
Yellow Sky
Movie · Screenplay
The Walls of Jericho
Movie · Writer
When My Baby Smiles at Me
Movie · Screenplay
Captain from Castile
Movie · Writer
Mother Wore Tights
Movie · Screenplay
The Razor's Edge
Movie · Screenplay
A Bell for Adano
Movie · Writer
Wilson
Movie · Writer
The Ox-Bow Incident
Movie · Screenplay
Guadalcanal Diary
Movie · Screenplay
Immortal Sergeant
Movie · Screenplay
To the Shores of Tripoli
Movie · Screenplay
Thunder Birds
Movie · Screenplay
Tales of Manhattan
Movie · Writer
Belle Starr
Movie · Screenplay
Brigham Young
Movie · Screenplay
Hudson's Bay
Movie · Writer
Young Mr. Lincoln
Movie · Writer, Story
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Movie · Screenplay
Drums Along the Mohawk
Movie · Screenplay
In Old Chicago
Movie · Screenplay
Kentucky
Movie · Screenplay
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Movie · Screenplay
Gateway
Movie · Writer
Slave Ship
Movie · Screenplay
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Movie · Writer
This Is My Affair
Movie · Story, Screenplay
Ramona
Movie · Screenplay
Career Woman
Movie · Screenplay
Can This Be Dixie?
Movie · Screenplay, Story
Gentle Julia
Movie · Screenplay
Pepper
Movie · Screenplay
The First Baby
Movie · Story, Screenplay
The Country Beyond
Movie · Writer
Steamboat Round the Bend
Movie · Screenplay
Life Begins at Forty
Movie · Screenplay
This Is the Life
Movie · Screenplay
Judge Priest
Movie · Screenplay
Hold That Girl
Movie · Writer
Call It Luck
Movie · Screenplay
You Can't Buy Everything
Movie · Screenplay
The Man Who Dared
Movie · Writer