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."
Director: Charles Brabin
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Colleen Moore as Selina Peake |
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Joseph De Grasse as Simeon Peake |
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John Bowers as Pervus DeJong |
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Ben Lyon as Dirk DeJong |
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Wallace Beery as Klaus Poole |
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Gladys Brockwell as Maartje Poole |
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Jean Hersholt as Aug Hempel |
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Charlotte Merriam as Julie Hempel |
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Dot Farley as Widow Paarlenburg |
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Ford Sterling as Jacob Hoogenduck |
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Frankie Darro as Dirk DeJong (child) |
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Henry Hebert as William Storm (as Henry Herbert) |
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Dorothy Brock as Dirk DeJong (infant) |
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Rosemary Theby as Paula Storm |
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Phyllis Haver as Dallas O'Meara |
| Directing | Charles Brabin | Director |
| Writing | Edna Ferber | Novel |
| Writing | Adelaide Heilbron | Writer |
| Writing | Earl Hudson | Adaptation |
| Production | Earl Hudson | Producer |
| Camera | Ted D. McCord | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Arthur Tavares | Editor |
| Art | Milton Menasco | Art Direction |
