So Big

So Big

90 mins | Drama | Dec. 28, 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."

So Big

90 mins | Drama | Dec. 28, 1924

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."
Producers First National Pictures
Original title So Big
Directors Charles Brabin
Writers Adelaide Heilbron, Earl Hudson, Edna Ferber

Cast

Colleen Moore

as Selina Peake

Joseph 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

Frankie Darro

as Dirk DeJong (child)

Henry Hebert

as William Storm (as Henry Herbert)

Dorothy Brock

as Dirk DeJong (infant)

Rosemary Theby

as Paula Storm

Phyllis Haver

as Dallas O'Meara