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Actor Byron E. Barr played a character named Gig Young in the 1942 dramatic film "The Gay Sisters" and eventually adopted it as his stage name. As Gig Young, he won the 1969 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

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