Lamar Trotti

Lamar Trotti was born on Oct 18, 1900 in USA. Lamar Trotti's big-screen debut came with The Man Who Dared directed by Hamilton MacFadden in 1933. Lamar Trotti is known for Stars and Stripes Forever directed by Henry Koster, Clifton Webb stars as John Philip Sousa and Debra Paget as Lily Becker. Lamar Trotti has got 4 awards and 6 nominations so far. The most recent award Lamar Trotti achieved is Writers Guild of America, USA. The upcoming new movie Lamar Trotti plays is The Jackals which will be released on Nov 15, 1967.

Author and screenwriter, often preoccupied with American history as viewed from a Southern perspective. Born in Atlanta, Trotti studied writing at Columbia University and was also the first person to graduate from the University of Georgia's Henry Grady School of Journalism. In 1923, he became the youngest editor employed by a newspaper owned by the Hearst Press, The Georgian. From 1925, Trotti worked in New York for the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, moving on to Hollywood in 1932. He spent virtually his entire career at 20th Century Fox as writer/producer: from 1933 until his untimely death in 1952. He wrote screenplays for a wide range of genres, including war films, westerns, comedies and biopics. The majority of these were critical and box office hits.Recurring motifs in Trotti's work are life in a romanticised Deep South (Steamboat Round the Bend (1935), Can This Be Dixie? (1936)), the Civil War (Vers sa destinée (1939), La Reine des rebelles (1941), L'étrange incident (1942)), pioneering history (Sur la piste des Mohawks (1939), L'Odyssée des Mormons (1940), Les trappeurs de l'Hudson (1940)) and rustic, small town Americana (Treize à la douzaine (1950)). Invariably, his screenplays have benefited from a profound knowledge of American history and politics and his keen eye for characterisation.His peers in the industry regarded Trotti as a man of considerable integrity. He was generally described as of quiet, self-effacing nature, possessed of strong moral convictions. His contributions were recognised thirty-one years after his death with a prestigious Screen Laurel Award from the Writer's Guild of America.