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  1. So Big! 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.

  2. www.imdb.com › title › tt0023491So Big! (1932) - IMDb

    So Big!: Directed by William A. Wellman. With Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis. After Selina's father dies, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.

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    • Drama, Romance
    • William A. Wellman
    • 1932-04-30
  3. Little Girl in Stove Scene (uncredited) Rita La Roy. ... Mrs. Paula Storm (uncredited) John Larkin. ... Jeff, the Black Waiter (uncredited) Florence Lawrence.

  4. A woman (Barbara Stanwyck) feels that her sacrifices for her son (Hardie Albright) are wasted when he becomes a bond salesman instead of an architect. Director William A. Wellman Production Co ...

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    • William A. Wellman
    • Drama
    • Barbara Stanwyck
  5. So Big (1932) is the third of four film versions of Edna Ferber's 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an indomitable widow, Selina Peake Dejong, who struggles to eke out a living for herself and her son in a hardscrabble Midwest farm. Although her son proves to be a disappointment, she inspires another boy who grows up to be a well-known artist, fulfilling the hopes she had for him.

    • William A. Wellman
    • Barbara Stanwyck
  6. A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son. William A. Wellman. Director. Edna Ferber. Novel. John Twist. Screenplay.

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  8. russman. 16 likes. Scott Kelly ★★½. This film (a thrice filmed adaptation of an Edna Ferber novel with the typical Ferber resilient female protagonist) offers the ultimate classic Hollywood film buff carrot – the promise of a scene with both Barbara Stanwyck (1st billed) and Bette Davis (fourth billed). Two silver screen icons born only ...

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