Dorothy Peterson

Martha Scott stars as Ella Bishop, a small-town Midwestern schoolteacher looking back over fifty years at Midwestern College — the men she loved and lost, the students whose lives she shaped, and the niece (Marsha Hunt) she raised. William Gargan plays the suitor who never quite catches her. Directed by Tay Garnett and adapted from Bess Streeter Aldrich's novel Miss Bishop, it is a sentimental women's picture in the Goodbye, Mr. Chips mold, carried by Scott's performance, which earned her comparisons to the best character actresses of the day and an Oscar nomination for its score by Edward Ward. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal of copyright.

Drama · Romance

Jackie Cooper plays Bill Peck, the mischief-making boy of George W. Peck's stories, whose pranks and misadventures keep landing him in trouble just as his father (Thomas Meighan) is running for mayor. When Bill's well-meaning meddling threatens to torpedo the campaign, he has to set things right the hard way. Directed by Edward F. Cline — a veteran of the Keaton shorts — for Sol Lesser Productions. The film is in the public domain.

Comedy · Family