Pedro E. Pico
Pedro E. Pico (27 July 1882 – 12 November 1945) was an Argentine dramatist, lawyer, journalist and screenwriter. His plays such as La polca del espiante and ¡Para eso se paga! were performed at the , and he later wrote several plays with Samuel Eichelbaum including Un romance turco (A Turkish Romance) (1920) and La Juana Figueroa (1921).[1] In the 1940s he became a successful screenwriter; at the 1944 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards he won the Silver Condor Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Manuel Agromayor and Alfredo de la Guardia for Juvenilia.[2]
Plays and screen credits[]
- Theatre works
- Querer y cerrar los ojos
- Pueblerina
- Trigo guacho
- San Juancito de Realicó
- La novia de los forasteros
- La historia se repite
- Novelera
- Agua en las manos
- Las rayas de una cruz'
- Screenwriter
- Con las alas rotas (1938)
- (1940)
- (1941)
- Cándida millonaria (1941)
- Story of a Poor Young Man (1942)
- (1942)
- Stella (1943)
- Juvenilia (1943)
- Los hombres las prefieren viudas (1943)
- El Capitán Pérez (1946)
- El diablo andaba en los choclos (1946)
References[]
- ^ Cortés, Eladio; Barrea-Marlys, Mirta (1 January 2003). Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-313-29041-1.
- ^ Hammer, Tad Bentley (1991). International film prizes: an encyclopedia. Garland. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8240-7099-1.
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Categories:
- Argentine dramatists and playwrights
- Argentine journalists
- Male journalists
- Argentine screenwriters
- Male screenwriters
- Argentine lawyers
- Silver Condor Award for Best Adapted Screenplay winners
- 1882 births
- 1945 deaths
- Male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Argentine male writers
- 20th-century screenwriters
- 20th-century lawyers
- 20th-century journalists
- Argentine writer stubs
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