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Lamar Trotti
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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 si…
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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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1967
The Jackals
Movie Screenplay
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1954
There's No Business Like Show Business
Movie Story
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1952
Stars and Stripes Forever
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1952
O. Henry's Full House
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1952
With a Song in My Heart
Movie Writer
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1951
As Young as You Feel
Movie Producer
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1951
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Movie Producer
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1950
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
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1950
Cheaper by the Dozen
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1949
You're My Everything
Movie Writer
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1948
Yellow Sky
Movie Producer
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1948
The Walls of Jericho
Movie Producer
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1948
When My Baby Smiles at Me
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1947
Captain from Castile
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1947
Mother Wore Tights
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1946
The Razor's Edge
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1946
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Movie Producer
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1945
A Bell for Adano
Movie Writer
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1944
Wilson
Movie Writer
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1943
Guadalcanal Diary
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1943
Immortal Sergeant
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1943
The Ox-Bow Incident
Movie Producer
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1942
Thunder Birds
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1942
Tales of Manhattan
Movie Writer
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1942
To the Shores of Tripoli
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1941
Belle Starr
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1940
Hudson's Bay
Movie Writer
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1940
Brigham Young
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1939
Drums Along the Mohawk
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1939
Young Mr. Lincoln
Movie Writer
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1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
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1938
Kentucky
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1938
Gateway
Movie Writer
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1938
Alexander's Ragtime Band
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1938
In Old Chicago
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1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Movie Writer
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1937
Slave Ship
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1937
This Is My Affair
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1936
Career Woman
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1936
Can This Be Dixie?
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