Sex sells and that's all they're pushing here. A buzzword title even then, UNDER EIGHTEEN was a highly hyped follow-up to young and sexy Marian Marsh's appearance in SVENGALI. She WAS a star. 1932 was her year. She literally has a spotlight on her here and looks like she's about to strip. Unfortunately, what was about to be stripped was her momentum. UNDER EIGHTEEN didn't do well at all and Marsh rebelled, resulting in Warners dropping her contract and her career never again reaching the lofty heights where she was at this exact moment in time.
Oh, and there's good ol' reliable Warren William down there, too, mentioned pretty much as an afterthought. What's this picture about? Who knows? And certainly no one cared.
I would have passed this one by in a second unless I was a particularly big fan of Ms. Marsh.
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