Dorothy Peterson
Popularity:0.173
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1897-12-25
Place of Birth:Hector, Minnesota, USA
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Also Known As:Bergetta Peterson, Bergetta "Dorothy" Peterson

The Beast of the City (1932)
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

Laddie (1935)
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Saboteur (1942)
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

I'm No Angel (1933)
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...

Dark Victory (1939)
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...

Payment Deferred (1932)
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...

This Is the Army (1943)
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...

Treasure Island (1934)
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...

The Woman in the Window (1944)
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Forbidden (1932)
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 baby...

Sister Kenny (1946)
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the...

Confession (1937)
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...

The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

Party Husband (1931)
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring...

Too Many Husbands (1940)
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

When the Lights Go On Again (1944)
The hometown life of a young soldier suffering from shellshock amnesia is revealed in flashback.

Bought! (1931)
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.

Pursuit (1935)
"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...

Sweepstake Annie (1935)
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...

Girls on Probation (1938)
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Side Streets (1934)
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

52nd Street (1937)
The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.

Uncle Joe (1941)
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.

Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner...

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew (1939)
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....

Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.

Out West with the Peppers (1940)
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...

That Hagen Girl (1947)
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...

Her Husband Lies (1937)
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...

Business and Pleasure (1932)
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...

Traveling Husbands (1931)
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.

The Flying Irishman (1939)
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)
Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to...

Up for Murder (1931)
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.

Night World (1932)
"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...

Breaking the Ice (1938)
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite...

Life Begins (1932)
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...

As the Earth Turns (1934)
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.

So Big! (1932)
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

The Country Doctor (1936)
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

When a Feller Needs a Friend (1932)
A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.

Hunted Men (1938)
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...

Penrod and Sam (1931)
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 Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Reunion (1936)
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...

Society Doctor (1935)
Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.

Way Back Home (1931)
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

The Moon Is Down (1943)
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.

The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Freckles (1935)
A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.

Henry Aldrich for President (1941)
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.

Girl Loves Boy (1937)
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...

Mothers Cry (1930)
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...

Women in War (1940)
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...

Ride, Kelly, Ride (1941)
A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.

Faces in the Fog (1944)
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...

Man of Iron (1935)
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.

This Is the Life (1944)
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...

Emma (1932)
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.

The Reckless Hour (1931)
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...

Call Her Savage (1932)
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...

Peck's Bad Boy (1934)
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...

The Man in the Trunk (1942)
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

Thrill of Youth (1932)
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...

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

Attorney for the Defense (1932)
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.

Mr. Skeffington (1944)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
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...

Sabotage (1939)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt...

Under Cover of Night (1937)
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.

Rich Man's Folly (1931)
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...

Air Force (1943)
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...

Reconnaissance Pilot (1943)
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over...

Reform Girl (1933)
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...

Skyline (1931)
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Seed of Innocence (1980)
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...

Two Bright Boys (1939)
A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

Beloved (1934)
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

Penrod and Sam (1931)
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...

Canyon Passage (1946)
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the...

Hold Me Tight (1933)
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...

Naked City (1958)
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Studio One (1948)
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Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
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Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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The Patty Duke Show (1963)
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The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
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Suspense (1949)
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Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
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Tales of Tomorrow (1951)
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