So Big (1924)
90 min
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
- Release date
- December 28, 1924
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Colleen Moore as Selina Peake
- Sam De Grasse as Simeon Peake
- John Bowers as Pervus DeJong
- Ben Lyon as Dirk DeJong
- Wallace Beery as Klaus Poole
- Gladys Brockwell as Maartje Poole
- Jean Hersholt as Aug Hempel
- Charlotte Merriam as Julie Hempel
- Dot Farley as Widow Paarlenburg
- Ford Sterling as Jacob Hoogenduck
Crew
- Charles Brabin · Director
- Edna Ferber · Writer
- Adelaide Heilbron · Writer
- Earl Hudson · Writer
- Earl Hudson · Producer
- Ted D. McCord · Cinematographer
- Arthur Tavares · Editor