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So Big! is a american film of genre Drama directed by William A. Wellman released in USA on 30 april 1932 with Barbara Stanwyck

So Big! (1932)

So Big!
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Released in USA 30 april 1932
Length 1h21
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Melodrama,    Romance
Rating67% 3.3961553.3961553.3961553.3961553.396155

So Big! is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck. The screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander and Robert Lord is based on the 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title (without the exclamation point) by Edna Ferber.

The film was the second full-scale screen adaptation of the Ferber novel. The first was a 1924 silent film of the same name directed by Charles Brabin and starred Colleen Moore. A 1953 remake was directed by Robert Wise and starring Jane Wyman. (The story was also made as a short in 1930, with Helen Jerome Eddy.)

Synopsis

Following the death of her mother, Selina Peake (Barbara Stanwyck) and her father (Robert Warwick) move to Chicago, where she enrolls in finishing school. Her father is killed, leaving her penniless, and Selina's friend Julie Hemple (Mae Madison) helps her find a job as a schoolteacher in a small Dutch community. Selina moves in with the Poole family and tutors their son Roelf (George Brent). Selina eventually marries immigrant farmer Pervus De Jong (Earle Foxe) and gives birth to Dirk (Hardie Albright), nicknamed "So Big", who becomes the primary focus of her life. When Pervus dies, Selina struggles to keep the farm afloat so she can afford to finance her son's education, hoping he will become an architect.

Actors

Barbara Stanwyck

(Selina Peake De Jong)
George Brent

(Adult Roelf Pool)
Bette Davis

(Miss Dallas O'Mara)
Alan Hale

(Klass Pool)
Lionel Belmore

(Reverend Dekker (uncredited))
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