Hubert Benjamin Osborne was a Canadian-born playwright

Playwright

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 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 who worked in the USA.

He was born in Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

 and attended Queen's University

Queen's University

Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

 for two years before progressing to Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He later worked as professor of drama at the Carnegie Institute of Technology

Carnegie Institute of Technology

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 until 1925, and then at Yale University

Yale University

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 until 1928.

Osborne also worked at several American theatres, and scripted films, Broadway and off-Broadway shows. In 1928 his play Eve's Complaint was produced in Paris

Paris

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. This was the first so-called "American play" to have a Paris première. Osborne also worked on Broadway during this period. He wrote The Good Men Do (1917), April (1918), Shore Leave (1922), Rita Coventry (1923) and The Blue Bandanna (1924). His most successful works were light comedies.

Osborne also created a pioneering synthetic stage lighting system, which was used in productions of Shakespeare, with whose work he had a particular fascination. His play The Good Men Do was about a meeting between Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)

Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. They were married in 1582. She outlived her husband by seven years...

 and Anne Whateley

Anne Whateley

Anne Whateley is the name of a woman who is sometimes supposed to have been the intended wife of William Shakespeare before he married Anne Hathaway. Most scholars believe that Whateley never existed, but that her name in a document concerning Shakespeare's marriage is merely a clerical error...

, an earlier fiancée of the playwright's. He also co-wrote The Shakespeare Play: A Drama in Rhythmic Prose (c.1911), about Shakespeare's life, but this was never produced on Broadway. In addition he created many adaptations of Shakespeare's works.

Osborne was also credited in a number of film adaptations of his plays, including Don't Call It Love (1923) (based on the play "Rita Coventry"); Hit the Deck

Hit the Deck (1930 film)

Hit the Deck is a 1930 musical film directed by Luther Reed, starred Jack Oakie, and featured Technicolor sequences. It was based on the musical Hit the Deck. It was one of the most expensive productions of RKO Radio Pictures up to that time, and one of the most expensive productions of 1930. This...

(1930) (play "Shore Leave"); Follow the Fleet

Follow the Fleet

Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable also appear, in small supporting roles...

(1936) (also based on "Shore Leave"); Strange Experiment (1937) (play "Two Worlds").