Dorothy Peterson

The widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children face new challenges and adventures when they move west to stay with her sister and her ornery husband.

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.

The rich playboy son of the town squire and the older daughter of a poor widow become star-crossed lovers kept apart by his status-obsessed father.

Unlucky in love, a duty-bound 1880s Midwestern schoolteacher sacrifices 50 years of her life to her students and raises her ex-fiancé’s child.

Tom Bates (Ronald Reagan) has returned to Jordan, Ohio, after 18 years, rekindling the gossip that he fathered an illegitimate baby before he left. Mary Hagen (Shirley Temple), the now-grown subject of those rumors, soon finds herself an unwitting target for the town's malicious whispers and lies. So when her mother dies without explaining her past, a tormented Mary turns to Tom for the truth about a scandal that ruined her life before it ever began. Said to be Temple's favorite adult movie, That Hagen Girl also features 20-year-old Lois Maxwell as the former child star's on-screen teacher and friend. Winner of the 1948 Golden Globe as New Star of the Year, Maxwell would achieve screen immortality as Miss Moneypenny, a role she played in the first 14 James Bond films, from Dr. No (1962) to A View to a Kill (1985).

A young boy escapes his oppressive Mennonite town and chases his dream to become a singer in Philadelphia where a nefarious manager exploits his talent.

A professor smitten by a beautiful woman in a gallery portrait meets her in the flesh and tries to protect her after he’s set up in a murder plot.

Ted and Arline, a young couple in love, decide to impulsively get married, despite the disapproval of their families. However, soon thereafter, Ted is drafted into the army and sent overseas to war. Months later, after suffering and surviving on the front lines, he is sent back home, suffering from shell shock. On the train ride home, Ted goes through the various memories of his life to cope. Once home, he tries to adjust to married life and his friends and loved ones give him the support and love he needs to fully recover. A heart-warming war-time story.