- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Lamar Trotti (1900-1952)
- Creator:
- Beck, Kay
- Date of Original:
- 2005-05-15
- Subject:
- Screenwriters--Georgia
Motion picture producers and directors--Georgia
Trotti, Lamar, 1900-1952 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Lamar Trotti. Lamar Trotti was one of the most prolific and respected screenwriters and producers working in the film industry during the 1930s and 1940s. Although he earned fame and fortune far from his native Georgia, he never relinquished his love for the South and its history. One of the most famous films that Trotti wrote and produced, I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951), was filmed on location in north Georgia and starred Susan Hayward. Trotti's script for the film was an adaptation of the novel A Circuit Rider's Wife, written by fellow Georgian Corra Harris. Before shooting began, Trotti assured the local people that the "picture would poke no 'Tobacco Road' fun" at them--a statement that could not be made about the film Deliverance, which was shot near the same location twenty years later.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/lamar-trotti-1900-1952/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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