Vivienne Osborne

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

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.

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. 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. 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, but left to sign with Warner Studios to get better roles. She then left Warners and signed a 3-year contract with Radio Pictures. She alternated between film and stage roles for the rest of her career.

Of her work in the The Three Musketeers musical, Theatre Magazine wrote her voice was "of true operatic quality." 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.

Filmography

Silent films

Sound films

Broadway theater

• 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
• One Glorious Hour (April 14, 1927 – May 1927) as Maria
• Fog (February 7, 1927 – May 1927) as Eunice
• 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
• 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

• Stanley Green, Kay Green (1966). Broadway musicals, show by show (5, illustrated ed.). Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 63. ISBN 0-7935-7750-0. Retrieved May 26, 2011. 
• Ruth Hunter (1945). Come back on Tuesday. C. Scribner's Sons. pp. 87–88. Retrieved May 26, 2011. 
• Burns Matle (March 1, 1924). "Vivienne Osborne, Maid from Spokane, Featured". Spokesman-Review. Retrieved May 26, 2011.