Dorothy Peterson Movies

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...

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

Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for...

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

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

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...

"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...

A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

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

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

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

Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of...

Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young...

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

A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life...

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...

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies...

A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.