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Director
  
Irving Cummings

Cinematography
  
Conrad Wells

Genres
  
Silent film, Drama

Language
  
Silent

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Producer
  
William Fox

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

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Cast
  
Mary Astor

Writer
  
Douglas Z. Doty
,
Sidney Lanfield
,
Douglas Z. Doty

Release date
  
November 11, 1928 (1928-11-11)

Related Irving Cummings movies
  
In Old Arizona (1928), Behind That Curtain (1929), My Gal Sal (1942), Girls Dormitory (1936), Belle Starr (1941)

Romance of the Underworld is a 1928 American silent film drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. Directed by Irving Cummings and starring Mary Astor. It is taken from a stage play called A Romance of the Underworld by Paul Armstrong. A previous version of the story was filmed as A Romance of the Underworld in 1918 by director James Kirkwood with Catherine Calvert in Astor's part. The 1928 film is extant at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Cast

  • Mary Astor as Judith Andrews
  • Ben Bard as Derby Dan Manning
  • Robert Elliott as Edwin Burke
  • John Boles as Stephen Ransome
  • Oscar Apfel as Champagne Joe
  • Helen Lynch as Blonodie Nell
  • William H. Tooker as Asa Jenks

    • Uncredited roles:

  • William Benge as Bartender
  • Maurice Black as Maitre D'
  • Sherry Hall as Pianist
  • John Kelly as window cleaner
  • Broderick O'Farrell as Attorney
  • Dick Rush as Police assistant
  • Phillips Smalley as John T. Woodring
  • Lottie Williams as Nanny
  • Florence Wix as Cafe supervisor

    • References

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