Lamar Trotti

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 Cant 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 Theres 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 sons death He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale California