Dorothy Peterson

Born: 1897-12-25


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Dark Victory

as Miss Wainwright
Released: 1939-04-20

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her...

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Saboteur

as Mrs. Mason
Released: 1942-04-24

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of...

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The Woman in the Window

as Mrs. Wanley
Released: 1944-10-25

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

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Canyon Passage

as Mrs. Dance (uncredited)
Released: 1946-07-17

In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his...

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Treasure Island

as Mrs. Hawkins
Released: 1934-08-17

In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins...

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I'm No Angel

as Thelma
Released: 1933-10-06

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money,...

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Air Force

as Mrs. Chester (uncredited)
Released: 1943-03-20

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack...

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Mr. Skeffington

as Manby
Released: 1944-05-25

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

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The Mayor of Hell

as Mrs. Smith
Released: 1933-06-24

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous...

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The Cabin in the Cotton

as Lilly Blake
Released: 1932-09-26

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

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The Devil Is a Sissy

as Mrs. Jennie Stevens
Released: 1936-09-18

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his...

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The Moon Is Down

as Mother (uncredited)
Released: 1943-03-14

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

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The Beast of the City

as Mary Fitzpatrick
Released: 1932-02-13

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed...

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Skyline

as Rose Breen
Released: 1931-10-08

Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas...

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Call Her Savage

as Silas' Wife
Released: 1932-11-24

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him....

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The Flying Irishman

as Ma Corrigan
Released: 1939-04-07

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan...

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Emma

as Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
Released: 1932-01-02

When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's...

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This Is the Army

as Mrs. Nelson
Released: 1943-08-14

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank....

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Forbidden

as Helen Grover
Released: 1932-01-08

On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the...

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So Big!

as Maartje Pool
Released: 1932-04-30

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

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Sister Kenny

as Agnes
Released: 1946-10-10

An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but...

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Breaking the Ice

as Annie Decker
Released: 1938-09-22

The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and...

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Cheers for Miss Bishop

as Mrs. Bishop
Released: 1941-02-21

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a...

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Bought!

as The Mother
Released: 1931-08-22

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance...

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Uncle Joe

as Margaret Day
Released: 1941-10-18

A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her...

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Too Many Husbands

as Gertrude Houlihan
Released: 1940-04-03

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

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The Country Doctor

as Nurse Katherine Kennedy
Released: 1936-03-12

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

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Henry Aldrich for President

as Mrs. Aldrich
Released: 1941-10-17

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

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Rich Man's Folly

as Katherine Trumbull
Released: 1931-11-14

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to...

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Seed of Innocence

as Nun
Released: 1980-10-01

A love story about two teenagers who fall in love, have a child, and escape from their families...

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Out West with the Peppers

as Mrs. Pepper
Released: 1940-06-30

When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids...

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Way Back Home

as Rose Clark
Released: 1931-11-13

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

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Attorney for the Defense

as Mrs. Wallace
Released: 1932-05-21

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

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Confession

as Mrs. Koslov
Released: 1937-08-19

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is...

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As the Earth Turns

as Mil
Released: 1934-02-14

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

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Payment Deferred

as Annie Marble
Released: 1932-11-01

Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy...

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Beloved

as Baroness Irene von Hausmann
Released: 1934-01-22

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

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Life Begins

as A Patient
Released: 1932-09-10

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The...

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Society Doctor

as Mrs. Harrigan
Released: 1935-01-25

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

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Night World

as Edith Blair
Released: 1932-05-04

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful...

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That Hagen Girl

as Minta Hagen
Released: 1947-11-01

Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has...

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When a Feller Needs a Friend

as Mrs. Margaret Randall
Released: 1932-04-30

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

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Girl Loves Boy

as Mrs. McCarthy
Released: 1937-03-27

Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob...

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Sabotage

as Edith Grayson
Released: 1939-10-13

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is...

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Five Little Peppers at Home

as Mrs. Pepper
Released: 1940-02-08

The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep...

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Lillian Russell

as Cynthia Leonard
Released: 1940-05-24

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

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Side Streets

as Mrs. Richards
Released: 1934-08-14

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

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Women in War

as Sister Frances
Released: 1940-06-05

A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an...

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Big Executive

as Mrs. Sarah Conway
Released: 1933-10-19

Big Executive

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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

as Mrs. Pepper
Released: 1939-08-22

The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's...

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Hunted Men

as Mary Harris
Released: 1938-05-27

Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the...

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Girls on Probation

as Jane Lennox
Released: 1938-10-22

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

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Faces in the Fog

as Mrs. Mason
Released: 1944-11-30

Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary...

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Business and Pleasure

as Mrs. Jane Olsen Tinker
Released: 1932-02-24

On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme...

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Reunion

as Katherine Kennedy
Released: 1936-11-20

Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought...

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Penrod and Sam

as Mary Schofield
Released: 1931-10-01

Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys...

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Penrod and Sam

as Mrs. Schofield
Released: 1931-10-01

Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys...

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The Man in the Trunk

as Lola DeWinters
Released: 1942-09-19

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

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Reform Girl

as Mrs. Putnam
Released: 1933-03-04

A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to...

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Traveling Husbands

as Martha Hall
Released: 1931-08-15

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

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Pursuit

as Mrs. McCoy
Released: 1935-08-09

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of...

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Man of Iron

as Bessie Bennett
Released: 1935-12-21

A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is...

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Reconnaissance Pilot

as Mrs. Cummings
Released: 1943-01-25

Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second...

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This Is the Life

as Aunt Betsy
Released: 1944-06-01

18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance...

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Under Cover of Night

as Susan Nash
Released: 1937-01-08

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

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Mothers Cry

as Mary Williams
Released: 1930-12-04

Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son,...

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Peck's Bad Boy

as Aunt Lily Clay
Released: 1934-10-18

Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin...

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Up for Murder

as Mrs. Marshall
Released: 1931-05-26

Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's...

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Two Bright Boys

as Kathleen O'Donnell
Released: 1939-09-21

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

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When the Lights Go On Again

as Clara Benson
Released: 1944-10-22

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

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She Wanted a Millionaire

as Mrs. Miller
Released: 1932-02-21

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William...

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Freckles

as Mrs. Duncan
Released: 1935-09-20

A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.

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Laddie

as Mrs. Stanton
Released: 1935-03-18

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

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Party Husband

as Kate
Released: 1931-06-06

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern...

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Five Little Peppers in Trouble

as Mrs. Pepper
Released: 1940-09-01

The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting...

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Her Husband Lies

as Dorothy Powell
Released: 1937-03-13

J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious...

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The Reckless Hour

as Mrs. Susie Jennison
Released: 1931-08-15

Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to...

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52nd Street

as Adela Rondell
Released: 1937-11-19

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

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Ride, Kelly, Ride

as Mrs. Martin
Released: 1941-02-07

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

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Hold Me Tight

as Mary Shane
Released: 1933-05-20

Newly married sweethearts Chuck Evans and Molly Roberts work at Blair's Department Store and...

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Thrill of Youth

as Seena Sherwood
Released: 1932-08-15

Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. ...

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Robert Montgomery Presents

as uncredited
First aired: 1950-01-30

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC...

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The Philco Television Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1948-10-03

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...

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Naked City

as Mrs. Graither
First aired: 1958-09-30

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....

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Studio One

as uncredited
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Tales of Tomorrow

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-08-03

Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and...

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Suspense

as Mrs. Morgan
First aired: 1949-01-06

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program,...

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The Patty Duke Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-09-18

The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963 to April 27,...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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