Dorothy Peterson Movies

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...

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

A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.

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

A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.

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...

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 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 jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he...

Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the...