Lamar Trotti
Lamar Jefferson Trotti was an American screenwriter, producer, and motion picture executive.
Early life and education
Trotti was born in Atlanta, US. He became the first graduate of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, when he received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 1921. While at UGA, he was the editor of the independent student newspaper The Red and Black.Professional career
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 for MGM.He won an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1944 for Wilson and was nominated for Young Mr. Lincoln and There's No Business Like Show Business. He received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, the lifetime achievement award of the WGA, in 1983.
Personal life
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 in Oceanside, California. 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.Partial filmography
The Man Who Dared – writer- Hold That Girl – writer
- Wild Gold – writer
- Call It Luck – writer Judge Priest – writer – directed by John Ford, with Will Rogers
- Bachelor of [Arts (film)|Bachelor of Arts] – writer
- Life Begins at 40 – writer – with Will Rogers
- Mr. Faintheart – writerSteamboat Round the Bend – writer – directed by John Ford, with Will Rogers
- This Is the Life – writer – with Jane Withers
- The First Baby – writerGentle Julia – writer – with Jane Withers
- The Country Beyond – writer
- Pepper – writer – with Jane Withers
- Ramona – writer – directed by Henry KingCan This Be Dixie? – writer – with Jane Withers
- Career Woman – writer
- Time Out for Romance – writer
- This Is My Affair – writer
- Slave Ship – writer
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse – writer – directed by Walter Lang
- Second Honeymoon – writer – directed by Walter LangIn Old Chicago – writer – directed by Henry King
- The Baroness and the Butler – writer – directed by Walter LangAlexander's Ragtime Band – writer – directed by Henry KingGateway – writer
- Kentucky – writer
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell – writerYoung Mr. Lincoln – writer – directed by John Ford
- Drums Along the Mohawk – writer – directed by John Ford
- Brigham Young: Frontiersman – writer – directed by Henry Hathaway
- Hudson's Bay – writer
- Man Hunt – writer – directed by Fritz Lang
- Belle Starr – writer
- To the Shores of Tripoli – writer
- Tales of Manhattan – writer
- Thunder Birds – writer, producer – directed by William Wellman
- Immortal Sergeant – writer, producerThe Ox-Bow Incident – writer, producer – directed by William WellmanGuadalcanal Diary – writerWilson – writer – directed by Henry King
- A Bell for Adano – writer, producer – directed by Henry KingThe Razor's Edge – writerColonel Effingham's Raid – producerMother Wore Tights – writer, producer – directed by Walter LangCaptain from Castile – writer, producer – directed by Henry King
- The Walls of Jericho – writer, producerWhen My Baby Smiles at Me – writer
- Yellow Sky – writer, producer – directed by William Wellman
- You're My Everything – writer, producer – directed by Walter LangCheaper by the Dozen – writer, producer – directed by Walter LangMy Blue Heaven – writer – directed by Henry Koster
- American Guerrilla in the Philippines – writer, producer – directed by Fritz Lang
- I'd Climb the Highest Mountain – writer, producer – directed by Walter Lang
- As Young as You Feel – writer, producerWith a Song in My Heart – writer, producer – directed by Walter Lang
- O. Henry's Full House – writerStars and Stripes Forever – writer, producer – directed by Henry KosterThere's No Business Like Show Business – writer – directed by Walter Lang