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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."
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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."
Rating:NR
Genre:Drama
Written By:Adelaide Heilbron
In Theaters:12/28/1924
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Runtime:90 minutes
Studio:First National Pictures
Cast
Charles Brabin
Director
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)
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