Screenplay: Lamar Trotti

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lamar Trotti. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


As Young as You Feel

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Harmon Jones

Cast Monty Woolley · Thelma Ritter · David Wayne · Jean Peters

Plot Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley...

6.1

45 votes

6.1

45 votes

There´s No Business Like Show Business

1954 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Ethel Merman · Dan Dailey · Donald O´Connor · Marilyn Monroe

Plot Marilyn Monroe and an all-star cast are featured in Irving Berlin's tuneful depiction of the trials and triumphs of a veteran vaudeville family. The talented Donahue family has plenty of...

6.1

712 votes

6.1

712 votes

Guadalcanal Diary

1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Preston Foster · Lloyd Nolan · William Bendix · Richard Conte

Plot Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

6.0

295 votes

6.0

295 votes

Brigham Young

1940 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Jane Darwell · John Carradine

Plot The true story of the famous Mormon leader, Brigham Young and his battle to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses...

6.0

120 votes

6.0

120 votes

6.0

77 votes

Cheaper by the Dozen

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Clifton Webb · Jeanne Crain · Myrna Loy · Betty Lynn

Plot "Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in...

5.9

222 votes

5.9

222 votes

Hudson's Bay

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Paul Muni · Gene Tierney · Laird Cregar · John Sutton

Plot Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition...

5.9

62 votes

5.9

62 votes

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

1939 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Don Ameche · Loretta Young · Henry Fonda · Charles Coburn

Plot Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put...

5.9

82 votes

5.9

82 votes

Mother Wore Tights

1947 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Betty Grable · Dan Dailey · Mona Freeman · Connie Marshall

Plot In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank...

5.8

33 votes

5.8

33 votes

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

1950 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

5.6

330 votes

5.6

330 votes

Kentucky

1938 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Loretta Young · Richard Greene · Karen Morley · Walter Brennan

Plot The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally Goodwin (Loretta Young) falls in love with Jack Dillon (Richard...

5.6

32 votes

5.6

32 votes

Belle Starr

1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Randolph Scott · Gene Tierney · Dana Andrews · Shepperd Strudwick

Plot Biography from outlaw Belle Starr (Gene Tierney). The setting is the Civil War and its aftermath. Belle's family has lost their land to Yankees. She marries Confederate guerilla leader Sam...

5.6

129 votes

5.6

129 votes

With a Song in My Heart

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Susan Hayward · Rory Calhoun · David Wayne · Thelma Ritter

Plot Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves...

5.5

47 votes

5.5

47 votes

To the Shores of Tripoli

1942 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast John Payne · Maureen O'Hara · Randolph Scott · Nancy Kelly

Plot Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky casanova Chris Winters, son of an officer, who's just tried to "mash"...

5.0

94 votes

5.0

94 votes

Slave Ship

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Warner Baxter · Wallace Beery · Elizabeth Allan · Mickey Rooney

Plot Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride...

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You're My Everything

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Dan Dailey · Anne Baxter · Anne Revere · Stanley Ridges

Plot In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on...

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Life Begins at 40

1935 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Will Rogers · Richard Cromwell · George Barbier · Rochelle Hudson

Plot In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for...

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Stars and Stripes Forever

1952 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Clifton Webb · Debra Paget · Robert Wagner · Ruth Hussey

Plot In the 1890s, Sgt. Major John Philip Sousa, leader of the Marine Corps Band, meets Private Willie Little, inventor of an instrument he calls the Sousaphone...and Little's girlfriend, shapely showgirl...

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Wild Gold

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast John Boles · Claire Trevor · Harry Green · Roger Imhof

Plot A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he...

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Not rated

Hold That Girl

1934 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Hamilton MacFadden

Cast James Dunn · Claire Trevor · Alan Edwards · Gertrude Michael

Plot A woman pretends to be a man so she can play football

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Not rated