Lamar Jefferson Trotti (October 18, 1900 – August 28, 1952) was an American screenwriter, producer, and motion picture executive.

Trotti was born inAtlanta, US.^[1] He became the first graduate of theHenry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at theUniversity of Georgia (UGA) inAthens, Georgia, when he received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (ABJ) in 1921.^[2] While at UGA, he was the editor of the independent student newspaperThe Red and Black.^[1]

In thesilent film era, he was a reporter for the dailyAtlanta Georgian, where he interviewed many show business people, such asViola Dana. Later, Trotti became an executive atFox Film Corporation in 1933 and after its 1935 merger withTwentieth Century Pictures to become20th 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) forMGM.

He won anAcademy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1944 forWilson and was nominated forYoung Mr. Lincoln (1939) andThere's No Business Like Show Business (1952). He received theLaurel 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 aheart attack at hospital near his summer home in St Malo in Oceanside, California. He was survived by a widow, a son and a daughter.^[3][4] His eldest son had died in a car crash in 1950.^[5]Henry Koster later wrote that he thought Trotti died of "a broken heart" because of his son's death.^[6]

• The Man Who Dared (1933) – writer (withDudley Nichols)
• Hold That Girl (1934) – writer (withDudley Nichols)
• Wild Gold (1934) – writer
• Call It Luck (1934) – writer (withDudley Nichols)
• Judge Priest (1934) – writer (withDudley Nichols) – directed by John Ford, withWill Rogers
• Bachelor of Arts (1934) – writer
• Life Begins at 40 (1934) – writer – with Will Rogers
• Mr. Faintheart (1935) – writer
• Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) – writer (with Dudley Nichols) – directed by John Ford, with Will Rogers
• This Is the Life (1935) – writer – withJane Withers
• The First Baby (1936) – writer
• Gentle Julia (1936) – writer – with Jane Withers
• The Country Beyond (1936) – writer
• Pepper (1936) – writer – with Jane Withers
• Ramona (1936) – writer – directed byHenry King
• Can This Be Dixie? (1936) – writer – with Jane Withers
• Career Woman (1936) – writer
• Time Out for Romance (1936) – writer
• This Is My Affair (1937) – writer
• Slave Ship (1937) – writer
• Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937) – writer – directed by Walter Lang
• Second Honeymoon (1937) – writer – directed by Walter Lang
• In Old Chicago (1937) – writer – directed by Henry King
• The Baroness and the Butler (1938) – writer – directed by Walter Lang
• Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) – writer – directed by Henry King
• Gateway (1938) – writer
• Kentucky (1938) – writer
• The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) – writer
• Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) – writer – directed by John Ford
• Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) – writer – directed by John Ford
• Brigham Young: Frontiersman (1940) – writer – directed byHenry Hathaway
• Hudson's Bay (1941) – writer
• Man Hunt (1941) – writer (with Dudley Nichols) – directed byFritz Lang
• Belle Starr (1941) – writer
• To the Shores of Tripoli (1942) – writer
• Tales of Manhattan (1942) – writer
• Thunder Birds (1942) – writer, producer – directed byWilliam Wellman
• Immortal Sergeant (1942) – writer, producer
• The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) – writer, producer – directed by William Wellman
• Guadalcanal Diary (1943) – writer
• Wilson (1944) – writer – directed by Henry King
• A Bell for Adano (1945) – writer, producer – directed by Henry King
• The Razor's Edge (1946) – writer
• Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946) – producer
• Mother Wore Tights (1947) – writer, producer – directed by Walter Lang
• Captain from Castile (1947) – writer, producer – directed by Henry King
• The Walls of Jericho (1948) – writer, producer
• When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948) – writer
• Yellow Sky (1948) – writer, producer – directed by William Wellman
• You're My Everything (1949) – writer, producer – directed by Walter Lang
• Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) – writer, producer – directed by Walter Lang
• My Blue Heaven (1950) – writer – directed byHenry Koster
• American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) – writer, producer – directed by Fritz Lang
• I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) – writer, producer – directed by Walter Lang
• As Young as You Feel (1951) – writer, producer
• With a Song in My Heart (1952) – writer, producer – directed by Walter Lang
• O. Henry's Full House (1952) – writer
• Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) – writer, producer – directed by Henry Koster
• There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) – writer – directed by Walter Lang

• Smith, Maybard (1953).A survey of the screenplays written by Lamar Trotti with emphasis on their acceptance by professional and non-professional groups (Thesis). University of Southern California. RetrievedDecember 10, 2017.

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