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So Big is a 1953 American Drama Western film directed by Robert Wise and starring Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden and Nancy Olson. The screenplay by John Twist was based on the 1924 novel by Edna Ferber. It was the third adaptation of the book, following a 1924 silent film with Colleen Moore and So Big! with Barbara Stanwyck, released in 1932.
A young widow and her son, nicknamed 'So Big', face challenges and choices in the late 1890s. Based on Edna Ferber's novel, the film stars Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson and Steve Forrest.
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- Drama, Romance, Western
- Robert Wise
- 1953-10-31
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So Big is a 1924 novel written by Edna Ferber. The book was inspired by the life of Antje Paarlberg in the Dutch community of South Holland, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. It was a best-seller in the United States and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1925.
Edna Ferber’s novel So Big is the captivating story of an independent woman and her son in the Chicago area in the late 19th and early 20th century. The book contrasts urban and rural life, celebrates the value of determination and hard work, and calls into question the increasing materialism of American life.
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- Paperback
- Edna Ferber
Oct 11, 2016 · “So Big” is Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, originally published in 1924, that exemplifies Ferber’s love of working people and of chronicling her heroines as assertive, bold, and prosperous.
- Edna Ferber
Jul 30, 2013 · “So Big” is Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, originally published in 1924, that exemplifies Ferber’s love of working people and of chronicling her heroines as assertive, bold, and prosperous.
- Edna Ferber
