Dorothy Peterson Movies

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.

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

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...

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 "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out...

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

The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite...

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

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...

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...

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

The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.

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...

Uncertain Lady is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Karl Freund.

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...

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.

The hometown life of a young soldier suffering from shellshock amnesia is revealed in flashback.

Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join...