So Big
Summary:
This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by Colleen Moore and Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman plays Selina, a girl of wealth who comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher. Here Selina falls in love with poor but big-hearted truck farmer Pervus DeJong (Sterling Hayden). Whe... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jane Wyman - (Selina DeJong)
Sterling Hayden - (Pervus DeJong)
Nancy Olson - (Dallas O'Mara)
Steve Forrest - (Dirk DeJong)
Elisabeth Fraser - (Julie Hempel)
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Review:
So Big is really nothing more than a "mother's love" soap opera, even if it's source is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Edna Ferber novel, and as such, it's the kind of film that largely rise or falls based on who is playing that mother and how convincing she is in making that love palpable and believable. Big is enormously fortunate to have at i... Continue >>
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