Dorothy Peterson Movies

A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt...

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine...

The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner...

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring...

Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails...

Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's...

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only...

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children....

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.

Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.