Lamar Trotti

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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 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. During this time, 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).

[edit] Partial filmography

• The Man Who Dared (1933)
• Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
• The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
• The Razor's Edge (1946)
• Captain from Castile (1947)
• When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
• Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)