So Big

Thrifty Chicago finishing-school student Selina (Barbara Stanwyck) arrives home to discover that her beloved gambler father has met his end, early in William A. Wellman's So Big, 1932, from the Edna Ferber novel.

Selina (Barbara Stanwyck), the newly-arrived boarder and schoolteacher in a Dutch Midwestern village, gets to know her enraptured house-mate and potential student Roelf (Dick Winslow), in So Big, 1932, from the Edna Ferber novel.

In the latter stages of director William A. Wellman's film, the now mature Dirk (Hardie Albright) is dazzled by the first appearance of artist Dallas (Bette Davis), in So Big, 1932, from the Edna Ferber novel.

Barbara Stanwyck stars as the long-suffering mother in the first sound movie of Edna Ferber's famous novel So Big (1932).