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Hugo Geronimo Fregonese (8 April 1908 – 11 January 1987) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter who worked both in Hollywood and his home country. He made his directorial debut in 1943. In 1949, he directed Apenas un delincuente.
Hugo Fregonese was born on 8 April 1908 in Mendoza, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for Hardly a Criminal (1949), My Six Convicts (1952) and Savage Pampas (1965). He was married to Faith Domergue. He died on 17 January 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jul 13, 2022 · Hugo Fregonese emphasizes the thirst for revenge that drives these men (with Lee Marvin as a particularly embittered lighting rod of anger), many of them deeply unpleasant even as they act polite and kind.
Mar 31, 2011 · It is internationally famous for its wine making industry. The Fregonese family emigrated to Argentina at the turn of the 20 th century, from Treviso in Veneto, a region in North-East Italy. Hugo, the youngest of three children, was the second to be born in the country after his brother Armando.
Aug 31, 2022 · On the occasion of the MoMA film series Hugo Fregonese: Man on the Run (screening September 1–14, 2022), we’re reprinting an article by series curator Dave Kehr that originally appeared in the November-December 2012 issue of Film Comment.
From September 1st through the 14th, The Museum of Modern Art in New York will be holding a retrospective dedicated to the work of Argentine director Hugo Fregonese. If you’ve never heard that name before, it’s because he wasn’t the sort of director to whom Hollywood gave enough oxygen.
Aug 30, 2022 · A series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York showcases 11 mostly Hollywood films from the underappreciated Argentine auteur known for his thematic obsession with...
