Osborne also worked at several American theaters and scripted films as well as Broadway and off-Broadway shows. In 1928 his play ''Eve's Complaint
was produced in Paris. This was the first so-called "American play" to have a Paris premiere. 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=6388|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|title=Hubert Osborne 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 and
Anne Whateley, 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 (1930) (play Shore Leave
); Follow the Fleet (1936) (also based on Shore Leave
); Strange Experiment
(1937) (play Two Worlds''). ==Filmography==