Dorothy Peterson

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 City.

Mary Hagen vive en un pequeño pueblo de Ohio y asiste a Jordon Junior College. Durante años, ha habido susurros, rumores y chismes sobre quiénes son sus verdaderos padres. Cuando Tom Bates regresa a la ciudad, se hace cargo de la casa y practica que el juez Merrivale lo dejó cuando murió. Como Tom ha estado fuera varios años, esto lleva a más chismes y Mary cree que él es su padre. El popular y rico Ken ama a Mary, pero su familia y amigos le recuerdan constantemente que ella "no es uno de nosotros". Julia, una maestra de la escuela, anima a Mary, pero Mary no puede interrumpir nada de lo que hace o es acusada de hacer. Tom conoce la respuesta a su verdadera identidad y guarda silencio.

Biografía sobre la enfermera Elisabeth Kenny, que consiguió notoriedad por sus revolucionarios tratamientos para la parálisis infantil tras su experiencia en los campos australianos con pacientes con polio.

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 doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....

El profesor Wanley y sus amigos comienzan a obsesionarse con el retrato de una bella muchacha, que está expuesto en el escaparate contiguo al club en que se reúnen. Wanley conoce por casualidad a la mujer del retrato y acepta ir a su apartamento. Pero allí ocurrirá algo inesperado.

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

Angela, una chica de pueblo, recibe una herencia y aprovecha para ir a Nueva York, en teoría para tomar clases de canto, pero en realidad porque está enamorada de un médico de la Marina que vive allí. Jimmy, su amigo de infancia, la seguirá hasta la gran ciudad...

Nueva York, 1914. Para salvar a su hermano, que ha cometido un desfalco, Fanny Trellis (Bette Davis), una mujer egoísta que sólo se preocupa por su belleza, se ve obligada a casarse con Job Skeffington Claude Rains), el director del banco, un hombre poco atractivo y mucho mayor que ella, pero paciente y bondadoso. El matrimonio, concertado y sin amor, pasará por varias etapas en las que ambos verán pasar dos guerra mundiales, varios amantes, una cruel enfermedad, persecuciones nazis, la ceguera y el pánico al envejecimiento.

Durante la I Guerra Mundial, el bailarín de Broadway Jerry Jones (George Murphy) es convocado para ingresar en el ejército. Otros amigos se enlistan también, y pronto, en el Campo Upton de New York, Jerry organiza a un grupo que montará el espectáculo “Yip! Yip! Yaphank!”. Varias décadas después, algunos de los sobrevivientes del grupo, con Jerry a la cabeza, aunarán esfuerzos para montar, durante la II Guerra Mundial, otra revista que se llamará esta vez “This is the Army”.

Película ambientada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) en la que un avión de bombardeo de las fuerzas aéreas de Estados Unidos, el B-17, combate en el Pacífico. Viaja a Pearl Harbor, después del ataque nipón, y más tarde es enviado a Manila para ayudar con la defensa en Fipilinas.

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

Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enemy-held islands.

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

Barry Kane es un trabajador en una fábrica de aviones, y se ve obligado a escapar a lo largo de los Estados Unidos cuando se ve acusado injustamente de provocar un incendio que mata a su mejor amigo.

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.

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

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 opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.

Jockey (Stephens) struggles against gamblers with the help of stable trainer (Pallette) and horse onwer's daughter (Quigley).

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

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 adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.

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 of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.

Biopic sobre la estrella de la música Lillian Russell, descubierta en 1890 por Tony Pastor, hasta su retiro en 1912 cuando se casó con el periodista Alexander Moore.

Tiempo después de que su anterior esposo desapareciese en un naufragio y fuese dado por muerto, Vicky Lowndes acaba de estrenar nuevo marido. En ese preciso momento, el primer marido vuelve a casa.

The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....

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

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. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.

Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) es una rica heredera de Long Island que descubre que tiene un tumor cerebral y es operada por un experto neurocirujano, el Doctor Frederick Steele (George Brent). A pesar de que la operación resulta todo un éxito, el tumor resulta ser maligno. A partir de entonces, Judith decide disfrutar de la vida.

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.

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

The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.

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 a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.

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

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 life.

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 penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.

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 beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.

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

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 delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.

Claude Pierce, un niño inglés muy educado que vive en el sur de Manhattan, intenta ganarse la aceptación ante sus compañeros no tan bien educados, en la escuela.

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

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

A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.

"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 Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )

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

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 around--and not necessarily for the better.

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

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 result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.

Jim Hawkins es un joven inglés que trabaja en la posada de sus padres. Un día llega al establecimiento un viejo bucanero llamado Billy Bones, que trae consigo un cofre con el mapa de “La isla del Tesoro”, que revela el paradero de las formidables riquezas acumuladas por el Capitán Flint. Los piratas de la tripulación de Flint, entre ellos Perro Negro, están buscando el mapa. Pero antes de conseguirlo, el joven Jim, aprovechando que Billy Bones muere, roba el cofre y escapa. Jim pide ayuda al doctor Livesey y al squire Trelawney, y deciden ir a la isla a por el tesoro. Tras adquirir la fragata “La Hispaniola”, la equipa con todo lo necesario y contrata a una tripulación. Entre ellos está Long John Silver, que embarca como cocinero, pero que en realidad es un capitán pirata que, tras ganarse la confianza del squire, consigue que un grupo de marineros a sus órdenes componga la tripulación.

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

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

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

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La atrevida Tira trabaja como bailarina y domadora de leones en una feria. Debido a una necesidad urgente de dinero, acepta realizar un peligroso nuevo número: meter la cabeza en la boca de un león. Con esta atracción, el circo llega a Nueva York y Tira puede dedicarse a su ocupación preferida: flirtear con hombres ricos y aceptar regalos caros.

A Patsy Gargan, un antiguo criminal, sus corruptos compinches políticos le pagan sus servicios nombrándolo inspector de un reformatorio. Al principio no muestra ningún interés por la escuela, pero la simpatía que siente por los niños que son víctimas de abusos y maltrato por parte del despiadado director y sus matones, lo empuja a aceptar el trabajo.

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 daughter.

Nasa (Clara Bow) es una mestiza con sangre blanca e india. Rebelde e indomable, no respetará las tradiciones de su padre y huirá con un hombre que no la conviene, quedando embarazada. Como si de una maldición se tratase, la vida de Nasa irá degradándose irremediablemente hacia el vicio, el alcohol y la prostitución.

El empleado de banca William Marble está desesperado por dinero para pagar las deudas de la familia. Cuando su acaudalado sobrino les visita le pide un préstamo, pero el joven se niega. Marble decide asesinarle, y después del crimen y la riqueza obtenida el hombre se siente transformado...

Primera de las muchas colaboraciones entre el director Michael Curtiz y la actriz Bette Davis, dos de los máximos exponentes de la Warner Bros. En esta ocasión las críticas no fueron excesivamente buenas ante la propuesta de drama social, si bien la actriz -todavía en los albores de su impresionante carrera- salió bien parada de todas ellas. La novela de Harry Harrison Kroll en que se basa, narra la historia de un honrado agricultor llamado Marvin (Richard Barthelmess) contratado en una plantación. Al ascender al puesto de contable descubre que su jefe ha estado robando dinero. Es entonces cuando este hombre inicia una lucha de clases liderando al pueblo oprimido contra el poder establecido. También Marvin tiene tiempo para un romance con la hija del jefe y con una amiga de la infancia.

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 situations.

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 spell of the town vamp Jill Fenwick.

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

"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 star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.

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

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

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 becomes embroiled in a feud between two Arab tribes.

Jane (Joan Bennett), una muchacha pobre de Missouri, hija del ferroviario Miller (Douglas Cosgrove), quiere salir del infierno de Missouri y vivir entre riquezas y glamour. William (Spencer Tracy) está enamorado de ella, pero es un amor que no atrae a la codiciosa Jane. Como William quiere lo mejor para ella, le anima a entrar en un concurso de belleza. Jane gana el concurso y también el amor del millonario Roger Norton (James Kirkwood) con el que se va a su castillo, en Francia. Lamentablemente, Roger es un hombre terriblemente posesivo y una noche, en un ataque de locura intenta agredirla. Por suerte, él resbala y termina muerto. Jane regresa junto al hombre que realmente le ha amado.

El jefe de policía, Jim Fitzpatrick, está luchando contra el gángster Sam Belmonte. Le pide a su deshonesto hermano Ed que le eche un ojo a Daisy, que estaba relacionada con Belmonte.

Durante un crucero, una joven bibliotecaria se enamora de un hombre casado...

Después de décadas de criar a los hijos sin madre de Smith, la ama de llaves Emma Thatcher se enfrenta al resentimiento cuando se casa con su padre.

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 shortly after giving birth to their son.

Seth Parker acoge a Robbie Turner y lo protege de su cruel padre Rube. Cuando éste desaparece, Seth trata de criar a Robbie como si fuera su propio hijo.

La historia de un hombre que desea construir rascacielos. Al morir su madre, entra a trabajar en una constructora cuyo propietario es su verdadero padre. Tras muchas vicisitudes, llegará a saber la verdad y se reconciliará con él.

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 club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.

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 club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.

Stephanie, hija de madre soltera, se debate entre un hombre mayor y rico, y otro joven pero menos adinerado. Un día, el hombre mayor descubre que es su padre y decide protegerla. Se relaciona con otro hombre que le propone matrimonio, ero la rechaza al averiguar que sus padres nunca se casaron. Al final, no obstante, encontrará el verdadero amor y descubrirá quién es su padre

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 warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.

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

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.

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

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 of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.