Lamar Trotti

Writing

Born Oct 18, 1900

From Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Died Aug 28, 1952

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.

Filmography — Crew

Lamar Trotti

Filmography — Crew

Gateway

Cheaper by the Dozen

Yellow Sky

Young Mr. Lincoln

The Ox-Bow Incident

Wilson

The Razor's Edge

Drums Along the Mohawk

Belle Starr

O. Henry's Full House

Captain from Castile

Alexander's Ragtime Band

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

As Young as You Feel

Guadalcanal Diary

Tales of Manhattan

A Bell for Adano

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

In Old Chicago

Colonel Effingham's Raid

Kentucky

Slave Ship

Ramona

Judge Priest

Hudson's Bay

Brigham Young

Stars and Stripes Forever

The Walls of Jericho

Career Woman

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

With a Song in My Heart

Thunder Birds

You're My Everything

This Is My Affair

To the Shores of Tripoli

Mother Wore Tights

When My Baby Smiles at Me

Pepper

Life Begins at Forty

Immortal Sergeant

Can This Be Dixie?

Steamboat Round the Bend

The Jackals

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

The First Baby

Hold That Girl

The Man Who Dared

Call It Luck

You Can't Buy Everything

Gentle Julia

This Is the Life

The Country Beyond