Dorothy Peterson Movies

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

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....

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

"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...

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

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...

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

When a married stockbroker falls in love with another woman, he becomes the prime suspect in his wife's accidental death.

A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.

Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways...

Newly married sweethearts Chuck Evans and Molly Roberts work at Blair's Department Store and Molly plans to quit to be a stay-at-home wife and...

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...

A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.

Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life...

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...

Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a...

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

Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.

A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost...

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