Dorothy Peterson Movies

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...

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...

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...

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 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.

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.