Dorothy Peterson Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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