So Big

Overview

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."

Directed by Charles Brabin

Top cast

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)

D

Dorothy Brock

Dirk DeJong (infant)

Rosemary Theby

Paula Storm

Phyllis Haver

Dallas O'Meara

Details