Dorothy Peterson Movies

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

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...

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....

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

"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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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