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"I'thousand your older blood brother, Mike, and I was stepped over!"

―Fredo Corleone^[src]

Frederico "Fredo" Corleone was the second oldest of the Corleone brothers.

1 Biography
- 1.one Fredo and the Family unit
- 1.2 Move to Nevada
- ane.iii Life after Las Vegas
- i.four Plans for the family
- one.5 Marriage
- one.6 Fredo's betrayal
- ane.7 Rejection
- one.8 Death
- 1.9 Fredo's legacy
2 Personality and traits
3 In sequel novels
- 3.1 InThe Godfather Returns
- 3.2 InThe Godfather'due south Revenge
four In the video games
- 4.i The Godfather II
5 Gallery
6 Notes and references

Biography

Fredo was the second kid of Vito and Carmela Corleone, born in 1919. In his youth he was a sickly kid, contracting pneumonia equally a babe. In The Godfather Returns, it is unsaid that Fredo was molested as a child by his parish priest, and he is portrayed every bit having underground sexual relationships with men.

Growing upward, he was an aggressive boyfriend, though he lost this trait as he became older. After dropping out of school, he continued to live with his parents. His begetter somewhen decided to give him menial tasks in the "family business concern".

Fredo and the Family unit

As an adult he was seen as the weakest of the three brothers and was given relatively unimportant business to run. All the same, he was likewise known equally a charismatic boyfriend, and was usually sent to pick important people up at the drome and entertain them before business meetings. Although not tough enough to earn his begetter's approving, he was dearly loved by his mother.

In December 1945, after the Don'southward usual commuter, Paulie Gatto, called out ill, Fredo volunteered to drive his father. While they were out, assassins shot the Don. Fredo fumbled with his gun and was unable to render fire. Later the assassins left, instead of going for help, Fredo sabbatum on the street and cried. After witnessing this, he did not leave his room for some time. His failure to protect his male parent from an assassination attempt contributed to his sense of inferiority.

Motion to Nevada

"Mike, you lot don't come to Las Vegas and talk to a man like Moe Greene similar that!"
"Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love y'all, but don't ever accept sides with anyone against the family again, ever."

―Fredo Corleone and Michael Corleone^[src]

Fredo later moved to Las Vegas under the protection of Don Francesco and was taken in past Moe Greene as a favor to the family, who were funded past Anthony Molinari from the West Coast. Greene never treated Fredo as an equal partner notwithstanding, becoming irritated by Fredo's womanizing, and even put him in danger by having him dispose of a business partner's body.

When Moe refused to sell out to Michael, Fredo attempted to defend Greene and was told never to side against the family unit once more. Greene was later killed in 1955. Fredo'southward behavior in Vegas was considered embarrassing to the family, largely because of his notorious habit of impregnating showgirls and prostitutes.

Life after Las Vegas

Fredo was appointed sotto capo, or underboss, by his brother, an appointment that was seen equally unqualified nepotism, though Fredo was given little real ability and the title was mostly formalism. Michael Corleone's rivals, chiefly Louie Russo, the mob boss of Chicago, hoped to exploit this rumor of Fredo's bisexuality to make Michael look weak. In Las Vegas, he met Marguerite Duvall, who was sent up to his room by Johnny Fontane. Though hesitant at first, Fredo paid her three thousand dollars to tell Johnny it was the best sexual practice she ever had, before eventually succumbing and sleeping with her. Presently later on, with Fredo's knowledge, Marguerite had a baby, whom she put upwardly for adoption.

Plans for the family

At the funeral for Don Molinari of San Francisco, Fredo got the idea of setting up a necropolis like to Colma in New Jersey. The Corleone family unit would be able to buy upwards the one-time cemetery land inexpensive, now prime real manor, and also be a silent partner in the graveyard business. Fredo would propose this plan to Michael and impress him, reassuring him and others of his abilities. To Fredo'south dismay, however, Michael dismissed the idea as unrealistic.^[3]

Marriage

At the Christmas of 1956, Fredo showed up at the Corleone Christmas party with Deanna Dunn, a famous but fading picture show starlet. A few months after they got married. Dunn got Fredo to make appearances in fleck parts in some of her movies. Later, in September 1957, Fredo'southward Hollywood connections allowed him to become his own successful TV show, "The Fred Corleone Testify", which aired irregularly, usually on Monday nights, until his death in 1959, on a local idiot box station in Nevada. Fredo's drinking problems continued and accelerated. 1 day, he discovered Deanna cheating on him with her movie co-star Matt Marshall, and Fredo shot-up the Corvette he had bought her. When Deanna'southward co-star tried to assault him, Fredo ended upwards knocking him unconscious with a pistol whip and went to a local jail. Tom Hagen came to bond him out and got in an argument about Fredo's reckless activity and Tom'southward blind loyalty to Michael. Tom again got the charges dropped as cocky defence force after paying off Marshall and the hotel.^[3]

Fredo's expose

"I know it was you lot, Fredo. You broke my eye. Y'all bankrupt my centre!"

―Michael Corleone^[src]

Nick Geraci met with Don Vincent "The Jew" Forlenza, the Don of Cleveland, and discussed how Fredo could fit into their plans to accept down Michael.^[3] The deal with Hyman Roth had now reached a stalemate, and they figured Fredo could be used as a pawn to let Hyman Roth succeed. If Fredo was told they could assistance him with his Colma vision, he'd practice anything to assist. Fredo met with Johnny Ola and supplied him with all the information they needed, especially financial information, about the Corleone family unit. Fredo ambiguously claimed that his goal in that deal was only to become something for himself, on his ain, and swore that he did not realize he was existence used equally office of a larger plot to kill his brother. Yet, in the outcome of Michael'south assassination, Fredo would likely have led the Corleone family, at least as a figurehead. It is unknown if Fredo knew that they planned to electrocute Michael.

Rejection

"Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother. You lot're non a friend. When you see our mother, I wanna know a day in advance and then I won't be there."

―Michael Corleone^[src]

Michael discovered Fredo's role in the plot during his trip to Havana, when Fredo let it skid out that he and Johnny Ola had been in Havana together earlier that year and they went to the sex bear witness together.

Michael confronted Fredo later and tells his older blood brother, "You broke my center." Fredo flees in fear of his life, but he is really in no danger because Michael believes that Johnny Ola and Hyman Roth had lied to Fredo and manipulated him. Later, when Michael is being pursued by a Congressional Commission investigating organized crime, he has a talk with Fredo and realizes that Fredo had both withheld important data from him about Hyman Roth'due south connection with the Commission'south lawyer Questadt, was deeply resentful and jealous of Michael's part in the family business as well as the fact that he was treated as an errand male child and that he was stepped over. Michael therefore disowns and banishes him from the family, although not wanting any harm to happen to him while their mother was all the same alive.

Decease

Fredo, moments before his death at Lake Tahoe.

Upon their mother's death, and at the urging of their sister Connie, Michael relented toward Fredo and seemingly offered reconciliation. However, information technology was simply a deception to describe Fredo in so every bit to accept him murdered by Al Neri.

Fredo and his nephew, Michael'southward son Anthony, developed a relationship with Michael's consent as office of a plan to kill Fredo and were to go fishing on Lake Tahoe. Notwithstanding, Anthony is called away past Connie, who tells him that his male parent wants to take him to Reno. Fredo is left alone in the angling gunkhole with Al Neri and he takes the gunkhole far out onto the lake. His suspicions prior to his decease are left up to interpretation. As Fredo prays the Hail Mary (which he claimed brought him luck whilst angling), Neri shoots him in the back of the head, not knowing that Anthony was watching from his bedroom window.

Fredo's legacy

"I ordered the death of my blood brother. He injured me. I killed my female parent's son. I killed my father's son."

―Michael Corleone^[src]

Michael was wracked with guilt over ordering Fredo's murder for the rest of his life. When Michael had a stroke, he called out for his brother. Michael broke downwards in tears when confessing the criminal offense to the futurity Pope, Cardinal Lamberto, in 1980 while at the Vatican. Information technology likewise irreparably harmed Michael'due south relationship with his son and Kay, who constitute nearly information technology through their son Anthony.

Personality and traits

"Fredo has a practiced heart, merely he is weak... and stupid, and this is life and decease."

―Michael Corleone^[src]

Described equally the child Italian parents prayed to the saints for, Fredo was the weakest and least intelligent of the Corleone brothers; his own brother, Michael, dismissed him as weak and stupid. Fredo was also known for being incredibly gullible and making poor decisions, every bit evidenced by his cloak-and-dagger dealings with Johnny Ola, thinking he was helping the family.

Every bit with all Corleones, Fredo had a temper and would lash out at anyone that insulted him or his family, namely his wife. However, as Michael had commented on Fredo's weakness, he let Moe Greene slap him effectually in public and fifty-fifty dedicated Greene for the act at his own expense, which upset Michael greatly.

After Michael became Don, Fredo held a grudge nigh being stepped over and would show information technology when Michael berated him for choosing Hyman Roth over the Corleone family.

Despite his flaws, Fredo was very sociable and had a great understanding of local hangouts, which fabricated him the meet-and-greet business liaison for of import figures and guests, of which significance to the family unit Fredo wasn't even aware, thinking he was simply an errand boy for Michael. Michael saw potential in Fredo's part in the family unit business organization, but was also wary to requite his older brother whatsoever real power.

Fredo proved to be the nigh sensitive and caring member of the Corleones. In Part I, Fredo volunteered to stand up in for Paulie Gatto to drive Don Vito, which unexpectedly led to the bump-off endeavor on the Don and Fredo'southward subsequent breakdown. When Don Vito returned habitation from the infirmary, Fredo was the but 1 to silently remain with his father when everyone else had left, though Don Vito was probably also heartbroken about the news of Sonny's murder to notice Fredo.

Fredo also recognized that he had made a mistake in betraying Michael to Hyman Roth, and desperately tried to earn his forgiveness during the later half ofPart Two. It is revealed that Fredo was the only one who supported Michael's enlistment in the Marines during the Second World War. Fredo also spent time with and helped Anthony deal with his suffering considering of the events surrounding The Roth Affair before long before being killed, when no one else did or could.

In sequel novels

InThe Godfather Returns

Marker Winegardner's novelThe Godfather Returns further expands upon the character of Fredo Corleone. It includes explanations for some questions left open up by the films, such every bit the details of Fredo'due south betrayal of Michael inThe Godfather Part Two, and how, as was revealed inThe Godfather Part Iii, Anthony knew the truth about Fredo'south expiry.

The novel reveals that Fredo is bisexual, and implies that he was molested equally a child by his parish priest, Father Stefano. Rival gangster Louie Russo exploits rumors of Fredo's sexuality to make Michael wait weak, and tries to have him killed while he is with a male person lover. The novel also reveals that, in San Francisco, Fredo beats one of his lovers to expiry after the man recognizes him from a newspaper photo. Hagen covers up the resulting scandal by claiming Fredo killed the man in self-defense force. Fredo also has liaisons with many women, having "knocked upwardly half the cocktail waitresses in Las Vegas". He meets Marguerite "Rita" Duvall, who Johnny Fontane sent to his room equally a prank. Though hesitant, they take sexual practice, and Fredo pays her to tell Johnny it was the best she had e'er had.

At Colma during the funeral for Don Molinari of San Francisco, Fredo gets the thought of setting up a necropolis in New Bailiwick of jersey. The Corleone family unit would buy the former cemetery land, at present prime real estate, and also exist a silent partner in the graveyard business. Fredo proposes his plan to Michael, wanting to print and convince him and others of his abilities. Michael, however, dismisses the program as unrealistic.

Fredo arrives at the Corleone Christmas party with Deanna Dunn, a fading movie starlet. A few months subsequently they are married. Dunn gets Fredo bit parts in some of her movies. Subsequently, in September 1957, Fredo's Hollywood connections allow him to get his own unsuccessful Boob tube testify, "The Fred Corleone Show", which aired irregularly, commonly on Monday nights, until his expiry. Meanwhile, Fredo's alcoholism worsens. He discovers Deanna cheating on him with her co-star, and shoots upwardly the car he bought her. When Deanna's co-star tries to assault him, Fredo knocks him unconscious and is arrested. Hagen bails him out, and they go in an argument about Fredo's recklessness and Hagen's bullheaded loyalty to Michael. Despite this, Hagen gets Fredo cleared past claiming the incident was self-defense.

Roth, Ola and traitorous Corleone family unit caporegime Nick Geraci utilize Fredo equally a pawn to eliminate Michael. Geraci and Ola meet with Fredo, who is blind drunk subsequently having a fight with his wife, and promise to make his necropolis idea a reality in return for information about Michael. Fredo supplies them with information near the Corleone family, specially financial interests.

Fredo'southward death plays out as information technology was filmed inThe Godfather Part Two. Anthony, virtually to get fishing with his uncle, is called away by his aunt Connie to go to Reno. He really never leaves and instead, he is sent to his room, where, from his window, he sees Fredo and Neri out on the lake. Anthony hears a gunshot and sees Neri returning lonely, explainingGodfather Part 3's revelation that Anthony knows the truth about his uncle's expiry.

InThe Godfather's Revenge

In Winegardner'south 2006 sequel,The Godfather's Revenge, Fredo appears in 1 of Michael's dreams, warning him about an unspecified threat and asking him why he had his own brother killed. Much of the novel portrays Michael dealing with his guilt over Fredo'southward murder.

In the final chapter of the book, Michael learns that Fredo had an illegitimate child with Michael'southward ex-girlfriend Rita Duvall (before Michael and Rita's relationship).

In the video games

"Ah, I, thought Moe was one o' the skilful guys. What the hell is Michael thinking?"

―Fredo Corleone to Aldo Trapani^[src]

Fredo and Aldo Trapani in *The Godfather: The Game*.

In The Godfather: The Game, Fredo is a secondary grapheme, seen in only a few scenes. In 1945, when Don Corleone is shot, Fredo asks Aldo Trapani to help him escort the ambulance to the hospital. Afterwards on, he is seen at the hospital with Sonny Corleone, who sends Aldo away. Not long after he fell into trouble with the Jersey police subsequently they impounded his car while he was disposing a body for Moe Greene.

Due to the motorcar's devastation by Trapani (under orders from Detective Campbell) the department weren't able to convict Fredo. Later, while he is aiding in the management of the Tiptop Hotel for Greene, he meets the at present Capo Trapani who came there to encounter Michael who wants Greene gone then he can expand into Vegas. Despite disagreeing and arguing with Michael'south programme, Fredo goes along with it and soon after the underground casino is raided and shut down, the Hotel taken over and (unbeknownst to Fredo) Moe is killed at Orchid Inc. by Trapani.

In this game, he is mistakenly referred to on the family unit nautical chart equally "Alfredo".

The Godfather Two

"Jesus Christ Dominic! I've never be and then scared in my life!"

―Fredo Corleone to Dominic Corleone^[src]

Fredo arguing with Michael in *The Godfather II*.

In the The Godfather II, Fredo is featured more prominently. He is ordered by Michael Corleone to wait after Aldo Trapani's mother, and later to go to Miami to look after a couple of hotels at that place. Fredo ofttimes advises Dominic on how to run a business. Hyman Roth convinces an unwitting Fredo to help him ready his two greatest competitors (Dominic and Samuele Mangano) against each other, by setting up an assassination attempt that was supposedly bundled by Mangano. Later on Roth's assassination later that year, it is implied that information technology is Dominic, who kills Fredo at Lake Tahoe.

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Notes and references

↑ The Godfather
↑ ^2.0 ^2.ane The Godfather Supplements
↑ ^iii.0 ^three.1 ^3.2 In the storyline of The Godfather Returns.

Underboss of the Corleone offense family
Preceded past: Sonny Corleone	1955 - 1959	Succeeded by: Al Neri

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