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
A Bell for Adano (John Hersey's A Bell for Adano)
1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Gene Tierney · John Hodiak · William Bendix · Glenn Langan
6.0
77 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
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Tyrone Power · Micheline Presle · Tom Ewell · Robert Patten
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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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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