Barbara Stanwyck
Selina Peake De Jong
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So Big is a 1932 pre-Code American 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 name, by Edna Ferber. So Big was the second full-scale screen
So Big!: Directed by William A. Wellman. With Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis. After Selina's father dies, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.
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- Drama, Romance
- William A. Wellman
- 1932-04-30
So Big (1932) is the third of four film versions of Edna Ferber's 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an indomitable widow, Selina Peake Dejong, who struggles to eke out a living for herself and her son in a hardscrabble Midwest farm.
- William A. Wellman
- Barbara Stanwyck
In the 1890s, Selina Peake was being raised in Chicago by her widowed father, who lost everything to gambling. He is killed when Selina is a young woman, leaving her penniless and forced to take a job as a schoolteacher in a small Dutch community.
Feb 2, 2022 · Barbara Stanwyck. Few novels have ever been as successful as Edna Ferber’s 1924 epic novel So Big . The story of Selina Peake De Jong, a woman who triumphed over widowhood, sexism, and the unforgiving midwestern soil captured the hearts of critics and audiences.
Selina (Barbara Stanwyck), the newly-arrived boarder and schoolteacher in a Dutch Midwestern village, gets to know her enraptured house-mate and potential student Roelf (Dick Winslow), in So Big, 1932, from the Edna Ferber novel.
So Big! (1932) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
