Bergetta "Dorothy" Peterson (December 25, 1897[citation needed] - October 3, 1979) was an American actress.

She studied at a dramatic school, performing in adaptations of Greek plays, and then attended the Chicago Musical College.

[1] Billed by her birth name, Peterson acted with a company in Icebound at the Montauk Theater in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1923.

[3] For two years, Peterson toured with Borgony Hammer's Ibsen Repertory Company.

[4] She made her screen debut in Mothers Cry (1930), a domestic drama that required the 29-year-old actress to age nearly three decades in the course of the film.