Dorothy Peterson Movies

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

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

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt...

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

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...

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...

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

"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.

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

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

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

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

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...