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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.
Sep 1, 2022 · 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.
Jul 13, 2022 · Hugo Fregonese situates Mason in this beachside paradise with the love of his life as the two integrate themselves into a new community. But the impulse to return, or perhaps the inability to believe that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, tears away at him, like a moth to a flame.
Aug 31, 2022 · A profile of the itinerant filmmaker who made films in Argentina, Spain, England, Italy and Germany, with a focus on his Hollywood period. Learn about his themes of isolation, escape and entrapment, and his visual style of canted compositions and strong diagonals.
Sep 1, 2022 · Perhaps history’s most restless filmmaker, Hugo Fregonese directed his first films in his native Argentina in the 1940s and then embarked on a globe-trotting career that took him to Hollywood, London, Paris, Rome, Munich, and eventually back to South America, all the while exploring themes of claustrophobia, entrapment, and ...
Hugo Geronimo Fregonese (April 8, 1908 in Mendoza – January 11, 1987 in Tigre) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter who worked both in Hollywood and his home country.
