Dorothy Peterson
Acting
Biography
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Born: December 25, 1897
Place of Birth: Hector, Minnesota, USA
Known For
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
The Mayor of Hell
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
The Reckless Hour
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.
Sabotage
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.....
Dark Victory
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 with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
The Devil Is a Sissy
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Saboteur
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
Sister Kenny
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Mr. Skeffington
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Filmography
as Nun
as Mrs. Graither
as Mrs. Morgan
as Minta Hagen
as Agnes
as Mrs. Dance (uncredited)
as Mrs. Mason
as Mrs. Wanley
as Clara Benson
as Aunt Betsy
as Manby
as Mrs. Nelson
as Mrs. Chester (uncredited)
as Mother (uncredited)
as Mrs. Cummings
as Lola DeWinters
as Mrs. Mason
as Margaret Day
as Mrs. Aldrich
as Mrs. Bishop
as Mrs. Martin
as Mrs. Pepper
as Mrs. Pepper
as Sister Frances
as Cynthia Leonard
as Gertrude Houlihan
as Mrs. Pepper
as Edith Grayson
as Kathleen O'Donnell
as Mrs. Pepper
as Miss Wainwright
as Ma Corrigan
as Jane Lennox
as Annie Decker
as Mary Harris
as Adela Rondell
as Mrs. Koslov
as Mrs. McCarthy
as Dorothy Powell
as Susan Nash
as Katherine Kennedy
as Mrs. Jennie Stevens
as Nurse Katherine Kennedy
as Bessie Bennett
as Mrs. Duncan
as Mrs. McCoy
as Mrs. Stanton
as Mrs. Foster
as Mrs. Harrigan
as Aunt Lily Clay
as Mrs. Hawkins
as Mrs. Richards
as Cicily Prentiss
as Mil
as Baroness Irene von Hausmann
as Mrs. Sarah Conway
as Thelma
as Mrs. Smith
as Mary Shane
as Mrs. Putnam
as Silas' Wife
as Annie Marble
as Lilly Blake
as A Patient
as Seena Sherwood
as Mrs. Wallace
as Edith Blair
as Maartje Pool
as Mrs. Margaret Randall
as Mrs. Jane Olsen Tinker
as Mrs. Miller
as Mary Fitzpatrick
as Helen Grover
as Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
as Katherine Trumbull
as Rose Clark
as Rose Breen
as Mary Schofield
as Mrs. Schofield
as The Mother
as Mrs. Susie Jennison
as Martha Hall
as Kate
as Mrs. Marshall
as Mary Williams