Dorothy Peterson Movies

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Huston

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Robert Cummings

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Laughton

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Murphy

In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Wallace Beery

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosalind Russell

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kay Francis

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Mackaill

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred MacMurray

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

Genre: War

Cast: Jimmy Lydon

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constance Bennett

"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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chester Morris

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Brown

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jane Bryan

A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aline MacMahon

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.

Genre: Music

Cast: Gale Storm

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....

Genre: Family

Cast: Dorothy Peterson

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

Genre: Family

Cast: Dorothy Peterson

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

Genre: Family

Cast: Dorothy Peterson

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Dorothy Peterson

Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronald Reagan

J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gail Patrick

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Corrigan

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Evelyn Brent

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Muir

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Bennett

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bobby Breen

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loretta Young

"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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Hersholt

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Janney

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Hersholt

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phillips Lord

Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chester Morris

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew

A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Brown

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Lydon

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Eric Linden

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Peterson

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsie Janis

Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Withers

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barton MacLane

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Mackaill

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Bow

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eugene Pallette

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jackie Cooper

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lynne Roberts

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Clyde

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Lowe

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Faye

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martha Scott

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Arleen Whelan

A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Edmund Lowe

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Bancroft

Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Holden

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of...

Genre: Action

Cast: John Ridgely

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noel Francis

Big Executive

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Meighan

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Timothy Wead

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Jackie Cooper

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Boles

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Janney

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Ian Hunter

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke

When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Dressler

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gloria Stuart