{{short description|1931 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Under Eighteen | image = Poster of the movie Under 18.jpg | caption = | director = Archie Mayo | producer = | based_on = {{based on|''Sky Life''<br>1929 story in ''Everybody's Magazine''|Frank Mitchell Dazey<br>Agnes Christine Johnston}} | writer = Charles Kenyon | narrator = | starring = Marian Marsh<br>Anita Page<br>Regis Toomey<br>Warren William | music = Leo F. Forbstein | cinematography = Barney McGill | editing = George Marks | studio = Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. | released = {{Film date|1931|12|24|New York City}} | runtime = 80 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Under Eighteen''''' is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Marian Marsh, Anita Page, Regis Toomey and Warren William. It is based on the short story "Sky Life" by Frank Mitchell Dazey and Agnes Christine Johnston.
==Plot== A wealthy Broadway producer tries to take advantage of a poor young seamstress who needs money to help her sister divorce her worthless husband.
==Cast== * Marian Marsh as Margie Evans * Anita Page as Sophie * Regis Toomey as Jimmie Slocum * Warren William as Raymond Harding * Norman Foster as Alf * Joyce Compton as Sybil * J. Farrell MacDonald as Pop Evans * Claire Dodd as Babsy * Paul Porcasi as François * Maude Eburne as Mrs. McCarthy * Murray Kinnell as Peterson * Dorothy Appleby as Elsie
==Reception== In his ''New York Times'' review, Mordaunt Hall described the film as "earnest, rather than intelligent."<ref>{{cite news | last = Hall | first = Mordaunt | author-link = Mordaunt Hall | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/12/26/archives/the-screen-janet-gaynor-in-a-sentimental-romance-with-musical.html |title=The Screen; ... Poor but Honest. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 26, 1931}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0022517}} * {{TCMDb title|3080}} * {{AFI film|4747}}
{{Archie Mayo}}
Category:1931 romantic drama films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American romantic drama films Category:Films based on short fiction Category:Films directed by Archie Mayo Category:Warner Bros. films Category:1931 films Category:1931 English-language films Category:1931 American films Category:English-language romantic drama films
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