So Big
- Released on
- Runtime
- 90 mins
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."
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."
Cast
- Colleen Moore
- Joseph De Grasse
- John Bowers
- Ben Lyon
- Wallace Beery
- Gladys Brockwell
- Jean Hersholt
- Charlotte Merriam
- Dot Farley
- Ford Sterling
- Frankie Darro
- Henry Hebert
- Dorothy Brock
- Rosemary Theby
- Phyllis Haver
Director
- Charles Brabin
Producers
- Earl Hudson
