Lamar Trotti
Writing
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
Writing52
movieThe Jackals
1967
Screenplay
movieStars and Stripes Forever
1952
Screenplay
movieO. Henry's Full House
1952
Screenplay
movieI'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951
Screenplay
movieCheaper by the Dozen
1950
Screenplay
movieYellow Sky
1948
Screenplay
movieWhen My Baby Smiles at Me
1948
Screenplay
movieMother Wore Tights
1947
Screenplay
movieThe Razor's Edge
1946
Screenplay
movieWilson
1944
Writer
movieGuadalcanal Diary
1943
Screenplay
movieImmortal Sergeant
1943
Screenplay
movieThe Ox-Bow Incident
1943
Screenplay
movieTo the Shores of Tripoli
1942
Screenplay
movieThunder Birds
1942
Screenplay
movieBelle Starr
1941
Screenplay
movieHudson's Bay
1940
Writer
movieBrigham Young
1940
Screenplay
movieDrums Along the Mohawk
1939
Screenplay
movieYoung Mr. Lincoln
1939
Writer, Story
movieKentucky
1938
Screenplay
movieGateway
1938
Writer
movieAlexander's Ragtime Band
1938
Screenplay
movieIn Old Chicago
1938
Screenplay
movieSlave Ship
1937
Screenplay
movieThis Is My Affair
1937
Story, Screenplay
movieCareer Woman
1936
Screenplay
movieCan This Be Dixie?
1936
Screenplay, Story
movieRamona
1936
Screenplay
moviePepper
1936
Screenplay
movieGentle Julia
1936
Screenplay
movieThe First Baby
1936
Story, Screenplay
movieThis Is the Life
1935
Screenplay
movieSteamboat Round the Bend
1935
Screenplay
movieLife Begins at Forty
1935
Screenplay
movieJudge Priest
1934
Screenplay
Call It Luck
1934
Screenplay
movieHold That Girl
1934
Writer
movieYou Can't Buy Everything
1934
Screenplay
Production16
movieWith a Song in My Heart
1952
Producer
movieAs Young as You Feel
1951
Producer
movieCheaper by the Dozen
1950
Producer
movieYou're My Everything
1949
Producer
movieYellow Sky
1948
Producer
movieThe Walls of Jericho
1948
Producer
movieCaptain from Castile
1947
Producer
movieMother Wore Tights
1947
Producer
movieA Bell for Adano
1945
Producer
movieImmortal Sergeant
1943
Producer
movieThe Ox-Bow Incident
1943
Producer
movieThunder Birds
1942
Producer