So Big! (1932)

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman raises her son on a farm in early 1900s Illinois. She struggles to make a living and shapes his character.

earnestsentimentalslow-paceddomesticwarmresilientmelancholic

What happens

So Big is a 1932 pre-Code American drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck. The screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander and Robert Lord is based on the 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, by Edna Ferber. So Big was the second full-scale screen adaptation of the Ferber novel. The first was a 1924 silent film of the same name directed by Charles Brabin and starring Colleen Moore. A 1953 remake was directed by Robert Wise and starred Jane Wyman. The story was also made as a short in 1930, with Helen Jerome Eddy, Jody K. Lance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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