Lamar Trotti
Writer, Producer
18 October 1900 — 28 August 1952 (51 years)
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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.
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
| 1967 | The Jackals · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1955 | |
| 1952 | Stars and Stripes Forever · as Screenplay |
| 1952 | O. Henry's Full House · as Screenplay |
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| 1951 | I'd Climb the Highest Mountain · as Screenplay |
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| 1950 | American Guerrilla in the Philippines · as Screenplay |
| 1950 | Cheaper by the Dozen · as Screenplay |
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| 1948 | Yellow Sky · as Screenplay |
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| 1948 | When My Baby Smiles at Me · as Screenplay |
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| 1947 | Mother Wore Tights · as Screenplay |
| 1946 | The Razor's Edge · as Screenplay |
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| 1943 | Guadalcanal Diary · as Screenplay |
| 1943 | The Ox-Bow Incident · as Screenplay |
| 1943 | Immortal Sergeant · as Screenplay |
| 1942 | Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air · as Screenplay |
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| 1942 | To the Shores of Tripoli · as Screenplay |
| 1941 | A Yank in the R.A.F. · as Contributing Writer |
| 1941 | Belle Starr · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | |
| 1940 | Brigham Young · as Screenplay |
| 1939 | Drums Along the Mohawk · as Screenplay |
| 1939 | Young Mr. LincolnOn Plex |
| 1939 | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell · as Screenplay |
| 1938 | Kentucky · as Screenplay |
| 1938 | Alexander's Ragtime Band · as Screenplay |
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| 1938 | In Old Chicago · as Screenplay |
| 1938 | The Baroness and the Butler · as Screenplay |
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| 1937 | Slave Ship · as Screenplay |
| 1937 | This Is My Affair · as Screenplay |
| 1936 | Career Woman · as Screenplay |
| 1936 | Ramona · as Screenplay |
| 1936 | Pepper · as Screenplay |
| 1935 | This Is the Life · as Screenplay |
| 1935 | Steamboat Round the Bend · as Screenplay |
| 1935 | Life Begins at 40 · as Screenplay |
| 1934 | Judge Priest · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1934 | You Can't Buy Everything · as Screenplay |
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| 1954 | There's No Business Like Show Business · as Story |
| 1941 | Man Hunt · as Contract Writer |
| 1937 | Second Honeymoon · as Contract Writer |
| 1937 | Time Out for Romance · as Contributor To Treatment |
| 1935 | $10 Raise · as Additional Dialogue |
| 1934 | Wild Gold · as Story |