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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.
So Big (1932) -- (Movie Clip) It's Your Father Thrifty Chicago finishing-school student Selina (Barbara Stanwyck) arrives home to discover that her beloved gambler father has met his end, early in William A. Wellman's So Big, 1932, from the Edna Ferber novel.
Edna Ferber’s epic of American Womanhood. A farmer’s widow takes on the land and her late husband’s tempestuous son. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. This second of three film versions of Edna Ferber's novel So Big stars Barbara Stanwyck as Ferber's resilient heroine Selena Dejong Peake.
William A. Wellman. Director. Edna Ferber. Novel. John Twist. Screenplay. A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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. Selina takes room and board with the Poole family, whose young teen son, Roelf, works the family farm rather than attend school.
