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So Big! 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 adaptation of the Ferber novel.
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. Although her son proves to be a disappointment, she inspires another boy who grows up to be a well-known ...
- William A. Wellman
- Barbara Stanwyck
Feb 2, 2022 · In 1932, William A. Wellman directed a remake of the original silent film version of So Big. Barbara Stanwyck, queen of the tough girls who grit it out, starred as Selina. George Brent starred as a grown Roelf Pool, and one Bette Davis starred as Dallas O’Mara, a young painter whom both Roelf and Dirk fall in love.
Selina and Pervus marry and live a hardscrabble life working their farm. Selina gives birth to a 10-lb son they name Dirk, lovingly nicknamed So Big. Roelf leaves home when his mother dies, as he feels the life of farming is what killed her. Still a teenager, he strikes out on his own. ¶ When Pervus leaves Selina a young widow, her efforts to ...
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In the latter stages of director William A. Wellman's film, the now mature Dirk (Hardie Albright) is dazzled by the first appearance of artist Dallas (Bette Davis), in So Big, 1932, from the Edna Ferber novel.
When gambling daddy is shot, young Stannie must make velvet out of her new sandpaper life with a move to High Prairie, Illinois as a schoolteacher. She’s astonished that dried blood is used to make the vegetables grow and that 30 year old wives look 50. The farming men are all depicted as mentally incompetent savages that speak in ...
