Vivienne Osborne

Biography

Vivienne Osborne was an American actress of stage and screen. Born in Des Moines, she began performing at age five and toured Washington with a stock company before her Broadway debut in The Whirlwind in 1919. That year she made an unreleased screen debut, and her first silent film, The Gray Brother, also lacked distribution. In 1928, she performed in a Ziegfeld musical version of The Three Musketeers, and Theatre Magazine praised her operatic voice. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. wanted her for The Iron Mask, his final silent film, in 1929, but she stayed in New York. She signed with Paramount in 1931 for character roles, then Warner for better parts, and later Radio Pictures on a three-year contract. She alternated stage and film roles afterward. Spokesman-Review praised her work as Mary Boyd in Husband's Holiday (1931). She died in 1961.

64years old at death

Born December 10, 1896Des Moines
Died June 10, 1961Malibu
Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
Also credited as Vivian Osborne

Movie Career

Films: 5
Career span: 14 years1932 to 1946

Every film, newest first

1946DragonwyckIMDb rating 6.9
1944I Accuse My ParentsIMDb rating 2.6
1940Primrose PathIMDb rating 6.8
1933SupernaturalIMDb rating 6.1
1932Two SecondsIMDb rating 6.9

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First role
Osborne began her stage career at age 5 and spent years touring Washington with a stock theater company before she turned 18.
A role that slipped away
After her run in the Ziegfeld musical The Three Musketeers, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. offered Osborne a role in The Iron Mask, his last silent film, but she turned it down to stay in New York.
First role
Osborne's first silent film was The Gray Brother, but the film never reached audiences because it lacked distribution and was never released.
Beyond film
Theatre Magazine reviewed Osborne's work in the musical The Three Musketeers and wrote that her voice was "of true operatic quality."