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Lamar Trotti

Lamar Trotti
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Writer

Birthday: (51) 1900-10-18 - Deathday: 1952-08-28

Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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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.

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The Ox-Bow Incident
The Ox-Bow Incident
Steamboat Round the Bend
This Is My Affair
This Is My Affair
Captain from Castile
Captain from Castile
Young Mr. Lincoln
Young Mr. Lincoln
You Can't Buy Everything
Yellow Sky
The Razor's Edge
Yellow Sky
Stars and Stripes Forever
As Young as You Feel
As Young as You Feel
Stars and Stripes Forever
Alexander's Ragtime Band
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
O. Henry's Full House
Gateway
Drums Along the Mohawk
In Old Chicago
Judge Priest
Tales of Manhattan
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen
Hudson's Bay
There's No Business Like Show Business
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Career Woman
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
The Man Who Dared
This Is the Life
With a Song in My Heart
With a Song in My Heart
Kentucky
The Walls of Jericho
Colonel Effingham's Raid
A Bell for Adano
A Bell for Adano
The Walls of Jericho
Guadalcanal Diary
Belle Starr
Immortal Sergeant
Immortal Sergeant
Wilson
Thunder Birds
Thunder Birds
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Mother Wore Tights
Mother Wore Tights
To the Shores of Tripoli
Ramona
The Jackals
When My Baby Smiles at Me
Slave Ship
Brigham Young
You're My Everything
You're My Everything
Pepper
Can This Be Dixie?
Gentle Julia
Can This Be Dixie?
The First Baby
The First Baby
The Country Beyond
Life Begins at Forty
Hold That Girl

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