Dorothy Peterson Movies

18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice...

A love story about two teenagers who fall in love, have a child, and escape from their families in an attempt to make life for themselves in New York...

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...

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

When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But...

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her...

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

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

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

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

Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the...

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

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...

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and...

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.

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