So Big (1924)
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."
- Date of release
- 1924-12-28
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Charles Brabin
Casting
- Colleen Moore — Selina Peake
- Joseph De Grasse — Simeon Peake
- John Bowers — Pervus DeJong
- Ben Lyon — Dirk DeJong
- Wallace Beery — Klaus Poole
- Gladys Brockwell — Maartje Poole
- Jean Hersholt — Aug Hempel
- Charlotte Merriam — Julie Hempel
- Dot Farley — Widow Paarlenburg
- Ford Sterling — Jacob Hoogenduck
- Frankie Darro — Dirk DeJong (child)
- Henry Hebert — William Storm (as Henry Herbert)
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