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

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....

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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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Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated