So Big!

Selina goes out to a farming district to teach and marries Pervus, the Dutch farmer she has been tutoring. When her husband dies she takes on the land and their small son alone, keeping the family going by growing vegetables and taking them to market. She pins all her hope on her son Dirk, but when he grows up he leaves architecture for the stock market and does not become the person she expected. Another boy she encouraged, on the other hand, becomes a well known painter years later. Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis appear in the eighty one minute film adapted from Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer winning novel; William A. Wellman’s production was completed in 1932.