Vivienne Osborne
Also Known As: Vera Vivienne Spragg
Biography: Vera Vivienne Spragg (December 10, 1896 – June 10, 1961) was an American stage and film actress known for her work in Broadway theatre and in silent and sound films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Birthday: December 09, 1896
Deathday: June 11, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Husband's Holiday
Overview: A stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-19
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I Accuse My Parents
Overview: Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-27
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Dragonwyck
Overview: For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-19
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Two Seconds
Overview: A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
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The Dark Horse
Overview: The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-16
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Overview: A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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Supernatural
Overview: After her brother's death, Roma Courtney becomes the heiress to his fortune. When fake psychic Paul Bavian claims to have a message from Roma's dead brother, he coaxes Roma into participating in a séance. Although Roma's fiancé, Grant, first believes the séance is nothing more than a scam, he eventually realizes that the vengeful spirit of an executed murderer has possessed Roma's body.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-21
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No More Ladies
Overview: A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-14
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Luxury Liner
Overview: This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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Captain Caution
Overview: When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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Life Begins
Overview: A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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The Crime Nobody Saw
Overview: Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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Week-End Marriage
Overview: In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-18
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Tomorrow at Seven
Overview: People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Let's Sing Again
Overview: An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-07
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Follow Your Heart
Overview: An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-10
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The Devil's in Love
Overview: The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-21
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Two Kinds of Women
Overview: The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds herself caught up in an affair with a married man, whose wife soon commits suicide. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-16
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She Asked for It
Overview: Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends them a monthly allowance. Conrad Norris, Dwight's cousin, disapproves of Dwight and Penny, and resents his uncle's generosity. The uncle is the victim of a hit-and-run accident and, there being no will, Conrad, as next of kin, inherits. Switch, the uncle's lawyer, tells Dwight he is shutout with no hope of appeal. Dwight starts writing mystery novels about a fictional detective named Steven Knight, which become instant hits and the money pours in.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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Men Are Such Fools
Overview: An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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So You Won't Talk?
Overview: A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-02
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Primrose Path
Overview: Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Champagne Waltz
Overview: In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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The Restless Sex
Overview: A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-12
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The Beloved Bachelor
Overview: Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes jealous of Julie Stressman, an old friend of Michael's and one of his models, Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio. They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling. When Elinor also shows up at the site, Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation, but she is killed by some falling materials. Julie's dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi, whose father died years earlier. In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage, Michael lies and says he is her father. Elinor hears this, and without asking questions, leaves him and marries another man the same night.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-23
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Sinner Take All
Overview: A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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The Phantom Broadcast
Overview: A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his accompanist, a hunchbacked piano player, is actually the voice behind the arrogant, abusive "singer"'s fame. The two men fall for the same girl, and when the singer turns up dead, suspicion falls upon his assistant and the girl.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-14
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Wives Never Know
Overview: Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Cameron of the Royal Mounted
Overview: A young Scottish immigrant to Canada becomes a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-25
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Sailor Be Good
Overview: A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-07
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The Good Provider
Overview: A prosperous small-town peddler accedes to his family's wish to move from their secure existence to the uncertainty of New York City. It proves fruitless and eventually his kin sees the error of their ways and return to their true home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-02
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In Walked Mary
Overview: Dick Allison comes to the aid of Mary Ann Hubbard, a young, dispossessed woman in the South, and the two become close friends. Dick leaves the South to move to New York, and Mary soon finds herself in dire financial straits. She decides to ask her friend Dick in New York for help, and travels there to see him. Unfortunately, she arrives at Dick's place on the evening of his bachelor party, but Dick persuades his fiancée, Betsy Caldwell, to put up Mary for the night. Mary soon finds out something about Betsy that Dick does not know.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-07
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The Right Way
Overview: Two young boys get in trouble with the law and wind up in prison. One, who was raised in poverty in the slums, goes to a reformatory and picks up tips on how to become a master criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-28
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Mother Eternal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-17
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