VIVIENNE OSBORNE AMERICAN STAGE /SILENT ACTRESS BORN 1896 DECEMBER 10

VIVIENNE OSBORNE 

AMERICAN STAGE /SILENT ACTRESS 

BORN 1896 DECEMBER 10

Vivienne Osborne (December 10, 1896 – June 10, 1961) was an American stage and film actress known for her work in Broadway theater and in silent and sound films.
Career[edit source]
Osborne began her career on stage when she was 5 years old, and by the time she was 18 years old, she had already spent many years touring throughout Washington with a stock theater company. She made her Broadway theater debut when she was in her early twenties, and her screen debut in 1919 in a film that was never released. She continued work on Broadway, and appeared in films when not working theater.[1]
Osborne's first silent film was in The Gray Brother, but the film did not have distribution and was never released. From March through December 1928, she appeared in the Florenz Ziegfeld musical version of The Three Musketeers.[2]

It was after her performance that Douglas Fairbanks Sr. offered her a role in his last silent film, The Iron Mask (1929), made as a sequel to his 1921 film The Three Musketeers.[1] Rather than accept the offer, she chose to remain in New York City and continue her career. She signed with Paramount Studios in 1931 and was assigned to character roles,[1] but left to sign with Warner Studios to get better roles. She then left Warners and signed a 3-year contract with Radio Pictures.[3] She alternated between film and stage roles for the rest of her career.[1]
Of her work in the musical The Three Musketeers, Theatre Magazine wrote her voice was "of true operatic quality."[4] Of her work as Mary Boyd in the 1931 film Husband's Holiday, Spokesman-Review wrote "Vivienne Osborne does fine work," and noted the several scenes which "tugged at the heartstrings" that were well done by Osborne and her co-star Juliette Compton.[5]
Filmography[edit source]
Silent films

The Grey Brother (1919)
In Walked Mary (1920) as Betsy Caldwell
The Restless Sex (1920)
Love's Flame (1920) as Adele De Ronsard
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920) as Isabella Strong
The Right Way (1921) as The Sweetheart
Mother Eternal (1921) as Julia Brennon
Cameron of the Royal Mounted (1921) as Mandy Haley
The Good Provider (1922) as Pearl Binswanger
Sound films

With Lawrence Grossmith in "The Silver Fox" - Arts and Decoration Magazine 1921









Night Club (1929) as Herself
Morgan's Maruders (1929)
Masquerade (1931)
The Beloved Bachelor (1931) as Elinor Hunter
Husband's Holiday (1931) as Mary Boyd
Two Kinds of Women (1932) as Helen
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932) as Mrs. Marcia Ferguson
Two Seconds (1932) as Shirley Day
Week-End Marriage (1932) as Shirley
The Dark Horse (1932) as Maybelle Blake[6]
Life Begins (1932) as Mrs. McGilvary

Men Are Such Fools (1932) as Lilli Arno
Luxury Liner (1933) as Sybil Brenhard
Sailor Be Good (1933) as Red Dale
The Phantom Broadcast (1933) as Elsa Evans[7]
Supernatural (1933) as Ruth Rogen[8]
Tomorrow at Seven (1933) as Martha Winters
The Devil's in Love (1933) as Rena Corday
No More Ladies (1935) as Lady Diana Knowleton
Let's Sing Again (1936) as Rosa Donelli
Follow Your Heart (1936) as Gloria Forrester
Wives Never Know (1936) as Renée La Journée
Sinner Take All (1936) as Alicia MacKelvey
Champagne Waltz (1937) as Countess Mariska
The Crime Nobody Saw (1937) as Suzanne Duval
She Asked for It (1937) as Celia Stettin
Men Are Such Fools (1938) as Lili Arno
Primrose Path (1940) as Thelma
Captain Caution (1940) as Victorine Argandeau
So You Won't Talk (1940) as Maxie Carewe
I Accuse My Parents (1944) as Mrs. Wilson
Dragonwyck (1946) as Johanna Van Ryn
Broadway theater[edit source]

Order Please (October 9, 1934 – October 1934) as Phoebe Weston
As Good as New (November 3, 1930 – December 1930) as Mrs. Violet Hargrave
The Royal Virgin (March 17, 1930 – March 1930) as The Countess of Rutland
Week-End (October 22, 1929 – October 1929) as Marga Chapman
The Three Musketeers (March 13, 1928 – December 15, 1928) as Lady De Winter[2]
One Glorious Hour (April 14, 1927 – May 1927) as Maria
Fog (February 7, 1927 – May 1927) as Eunice[9]
Aloma of the South Seas (April 20, 1925 – June 1925) as Aloma
Houses of Sand (February 17, 1925 – March 1925) as Miss Kane
The Blue Bandanna (June 23, 1924 - July 1924) as The Girl
New Toys (February 18, 1924 – March 1924) as Ruth Webb[10]
Scaramouche (October 24, 1923 – December 1923) as Climene
The Love Child (November 14, 1922 – April 1923) as Aline De Mar
The Silver Fox (September 5, 1921 – December 1921) as Frankie Turner
The Bonehead (April 12, 1920 – May 1920) as Jean Brent

The Whirlwind (December 23, 1919 – February 1920) as Bessie Van Ashton