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Gig Young (November 4, 1913 – October 19, 1978) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
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The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year. ...
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is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
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Early life and career
Born Byron Elsworth Barr in St. Cloud, Minnesota, his parents John and Emma Barr raised him in Washington DC. He developed a passion for the theatre while appearing in high school plays, then after some amateur experience, he applied for and received a scholarship to the acclaimed Pasadena Community Playhouse. While acting in 'Pancho', a south-of-the-border play by Lowell Barrington, he and the leading actor in the play, George Reeves, were spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout. Both actors were signed to supporting player contracts with the studio. A myth has developed that Young changed his given name Byron Barr to avoid confusion with another actor of the same name. Actually, the name "Gig Young" was taken from a character he played in one of his earliest films, The Gay Sisters (1942). The other Byron Barr did not make his film debut until Double Indemnity in 1944, two years after Young took his screen name. Red River cart at Saint Cloud St. ...
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The Pasadena Playhouse is a historic theatre located in Pasadena, California. ...
George Reeves (January 5,[1] 1914 – June 16, 1959) was an American actor, best known for his role as Superman in the 1950s television program Adventures of Superman and his controversial death at the age of 45. ...
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Artist and repertoire (A&R for short) is a music industry term that refers to the division of a record label that is responsible for scouting and developing talent. ...
The Gay Sisters is a 1942 film starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp and Gig Young, which was based on a novel by Stephen Longstreet. ...
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Signed to a contract with Warner Brothers, Young appeared in supporting roles in numerous films during the 1940s, and came to be regarded as a popular and likeable second lead, playing the brothers or friends of the principal characters. During World War II, Young took a hiatus from his movie career and served admirably in the United States Coast Guard, alongside fellow Hollywood actors Cesar Romero and Richard Cromwell. Warner Bros. ...
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Richard Cromwell (January 8, 1910 - October 11, 1960) was an American actor, born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh. ...
In the early 1950s Young began to play the type of role that he would become best known for, a sardonic but engaging and affable drunk. His dramatic work as an alcoholic in Come Fill the Cup (1951), and his comedic role as a tipsy but ultimately charming cad in Teacher's Pet (1958), each earned him nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Alcoholism is the consumption of, or preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical or mental harm. ...
Come Fill the Cup is a 1951 film with James Cagney and Gig Young. ...
Teachers Pet is a 1958 film starring Clark Gable and Doris Day, directed by George Seaton and written by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin. ...
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
Success and decline Gig Young was the host of Warner Bros. Presents, an umbrella title for three television series (Casablanca, Kings Row, and Cheyenne) that aired during the 1955-56 season on ABC Television. This show ushered the entry of the Warner Bros. Studio into television production, just as Disneyland (the TV show) had done for the Walt Disney Studios a year earlier also on ABC.
He won the Academy Award for his role as Rocky, the dance marathon emcee and promoter in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). Young is considered the ultimate victim of the Oscar curse, so-called because many Academy Award winners have seen their careers decline or reach a dead-end after winning the ultimate accolade from their peers. According to his fourth wife, Elaine, "What he was aching for, as he walked up to collect his Oscar, was a role in his own movie -- one that they could finally call a Gig Young movie." Young was shattered when that opportunity did not materialize. "For Gig, the Oscar was literally the kiss of death, the end of the line," according to Williams. He himself said to Louella Parsons after failing to win in 1951 that "So many people who have been nominated for an Oscar have had bad luck afterwards." A Master of Ceremonies or MC (sometimes spelled emcee), sometimes called a compere or an MJ for microphone jockey, is the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance. ...
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Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
Louella Parsons (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) was an American gossip columnist. ...
Alcoholism plagued his later years. Cast in Blazing Saddles (1974) as the Waco Kid, he was replaced by director Mel Brooks with Gene Wilder on the first day of filming because he was suffering from delirium tremens on the set. Alcoholism is the consumption of, or preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical or mental harm. ...
Alex Karras as Mongo in Blazing Saddles Blazing Saddles (1974) is a comedy directed by Mel Brooks and starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, and released by Warner Brothers. ...
Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...
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Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933) is an American comedic actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Willy Wonka and his collaborations with Mel Brooks, most notably Blazing Saddles, The Producers, and Young Frankenstein, and his many movies with Richard Pryor, including Silver Streak...
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Personal life and death Young married his third wife, actress Elizabeth Montgomery, 20 years his junior, on 28 December 1956. They divorced in January 1963 amid rumors of domestic violence. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Young's fourth wife, Elaine Young née Williams, (married in October 1963) became a prominent Beverly Hills real estate agent in the 1970s and she brokered many transactions over the ensuing years to myriad Hollywood luminaries. Elaine Young, who died in April 2006, was also noted for overcoming disfiguring plastic surgery and for her outspoken crusade for reforms against improperly trained cosmetic surgeons. For other uses, see: Beverly Hills (disambiguation). ...
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On 27 September 1978, aged 64, he married his fifth wife, a 31 year-old German art gallery employee named Kim Schmidt. On October 19, 1978, three weeks after their marriage, they were both found dead at home with gunshot wounds to the head in their New York City apartment. Police theorize that Young first shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself in a suicide pact. The murder/suicide occurred at The Osborne Apartments on West 57th Street between Seventh Avenue & Broadway, a co-op building. On the day he died, Gig Young taped an episode of the Joe Franklin TV show (which never aired) and then went home and committed the murder suicide. is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Joseph Fortgang (born March 9, 1926) is an American radio and television personality who uses the stage name Joe Franklin. ...
His will, which covered a $200,000 estate, left his Academy Award to his agent, Martin Baum, and Baum's wife. The wording of the will called it "the Oscar that I won because of Martin's help." New York City police found the statuette beside the bodies of Young and his wife. In the common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person (the testator) regulates the rights of others over his property or family after death. ...
Martin Baum (1765-1831) was a Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. ...
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He had one daughter Jennifer Young (b. 21 April 1964); he filed a non-paternity suit claiming he wasn't her father and left her $10 in his will. is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Though the case attracted considerable media attention and speculation, Young's motivation for the murder/suicide remains unknown, as he left no suicide note, and his associates could provide no explanation for his action. He was however receiving psychiatric treatment from the controversial psychologist Dr. Eugene Landy later to be vilified for his involvement with Beach Boy Brian Wilson. Eugene Ellsworth Landy, Ph. ...
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Practically Yours is a 1944 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mitchell Leisen, and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. ...
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