Cast: Dorothy Peterson
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dorothy Peterson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Woman in the Window
1944 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Bennett · Raymond Massey · Edmund Breon
Plot Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club. Wanley happens to meet the woman while...
8.1
16K votes
8.1
16K votes
Dark Victory
1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Edmund Goulding
Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Humphrey Bogart · Geraldine Fitzgerald
Plot The twenty-three years old wealthy sportswoman Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) has painful headaches and double-vision, and the family doctor, Dr. Parsons (Henry Travers), convinces her to go with her best...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Treasure Island
1934 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Jackie Cooper · Wallace Beery · Lewis Stone · Lionel Barrymore
Plot When young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) finds a treasure map inside a pirate�s chest, he�s headed off on a high adventure. Hawkins and family friend Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger) set...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Confession
1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Joe May
Cast Kay Francis · Ian Hunter · Basil Rathbone · Jane Bryan
7.2
35 votes
7.2
35 votes
Saboteur
1942 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Priscilla Lane · Robert Cummings · Otto Kruger · Alan Baxter
Plot A forerunner to Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST, SABOTEUR is the story of defense plant worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings), who stands falsely accused of planning a factory explosion that killed...
6.7
4K votes
6.7
4K votes
Sister Kenny
1946 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Dudley Nichols
Cast Rosalind Russell · Dean Jagger · Alexander Knox · Beulah Bondi
Plot True story of Elizabeth Kenny, a young nurse in the Australian outback who, witnessing patients with polio, determined to come up with a treatment for the disease. She did but,...
6.6
73 votes
6.6
73 votes
Forbidden
1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Adolphe Menjou · Ralph Bellamy · Dorothy Peterson
Plot 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...
6.6
157 votes
6.6
157 votes
So Big!
1932 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Brent · Dickie Moore · Bette Davis
Plot Selina lived well until her father Simeon died. Her aunts sold the estate and put her in a boarding school. As an adult she wants to be a teacher in...
6.4
76 votes
6.4
76 votes
Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Martha Scott · William Gargan · Edmund Gwenn · Sterling Holloway
Plot Nostalgic, poignant story of a schoolteacher in a midwestern town who devotes her life to teaching. A warm reassuring film in the tradition of "Miss Dove" and "Mr. Chips".
6.4
52 votes
6.4
52 votes
The Beast of the City
1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Charles Brabin
Cast Walter Huston · Jean Harlow · Wallace Ford · Jean Hersholt
Plot Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. He asks his brother Ed to keep an eye on Daisy who was connected with Belmonte.
6.3
58 votes
6.3
58 votes
The Mayor of Hell
1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo · Michael Curtiz
Cast James Cagney · Madge Evans · Arthur Byron · Allen Jenkins
Plot Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...
6.2
85 votes
6.2
85 votes
I'm No Angel
1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Wesley Ruggles
Cast Mae West · Cary Grant · Gregory Ratoff · Edward Arnold
Plot 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...
6.1
328 votes
6.1
328 votes
The Cabin in the Cotton
1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Richard Barthelmess · Dorothy Jordan · Bette Davis · Hardie Albright
Plot A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.
6.1
64 votes
6.1
64 votes
Way Back Home
1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Phillips Lord · Effie Palmer · Frank Albertson · Bette Davis
Plot Seth Parker takes in Robbie Turner and protects him from his cruel father Rube. When the father disappears, Seth intends to raise Robbie as his own son. The vindictive father...
6.0
29 votes
6.0
29 votes
Too Many Husbands
1940 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Wesley Ruggles
Cast Jean Arthur · Fred MacMurray · Melvyn Douglas · Harry Davenport
Plot It's been a year since Bill Cardew was declared dead by drowning, and his widow Vicky is now married to his old friend and business partner, Henry Lowndes. When Bill...
6.0
82 votes
6.0
82 votes
This Is the Army
1943 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast George Murphy · Joan Leslie · George Tobias · Ronald Reagan
Plot In WW I dancer Jerry Jones (George Murphy) stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his...
4.2
33 votes
4.2
33 votes
That Hagen Girl
1947 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Peter Godfrey
Cast Ronald Reagan · Shirley Temple · Rory Calhoun · Lois Maxwell
Plot 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 real parents....
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Payment Deferred
1932 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Lothar Mendes
Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Sullivan · Dorothy Peterson · Verree Teasdale
Plot 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 man refuses. Marble...
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Under Cover of Night
1937 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Edmund Lowe · Florence Rice · Nat Pendleton · Henry Daniell
Plot A crazed, philandering professor prevents his studious wife from leaving him by committing the perfect murder.
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Breaking the Ice
1938 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast Bobby Breen · Charles Ruggles · Dolores Costello · Irene Dare
Plot Tommy Martin lives with mother Martha in a conservative religious community but dreams of a singing career. He leaves to join a traveling show where he befriends skating sensation Irene...
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