He worked under Hans Dreier, Paramount's supervising art director and "developed a more classical, almost baroque sense of set design and decoration.
"[2] Fegté's notable films included The Cocoanuts (1929), Animal Crackers (1930), The General Died at Dawn (1936), The Lady Eve (1941), I Married a Witch (1942), The Palm Beach Story (1942), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), and The Uninvited (1944).
[2] He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Frenchman's Creek (1944) and was nominated in the same category for Five Graves to Cairo (1943), The Princess and the Pirate (1944), and Destination Moon (1950).
[3][4][5][6] He worked with Paramount's top directors, including Ernst Lubitsch (Design for Living), Fritz Lang (You and Me), Preston Sturges (The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), Billy Wilder (Five Graves to Cairo), René Clair (And Then There Were None, I Married a Witch), and King Vidor (So Red the Rose).
[2] In the 1950s, Fegté also worked in television, including Adventures of Superman (1952–1953), General Electric Theater (1953), Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953), Cavalcade of America (1953–1954), Medic (1955–1956), and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1957–1958).