So Big Summary
Director: Robert Wise
Genres: Drama
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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). When Pervus dies, Selina is left a widow with a small son and little else to her name. Through grit and perseverance, Selina single-handedly raises the boy, who grows up to be architect Dirk DeJong (Steve_Forrest). Taking a cue from his self-sacrificing mother, Dirk devotes himself to creativity rather than money-grubbing while pursuing his profession. Meticulously produced, So Big is one of the better "saga" soapers of the 1950s, with Jane_Wyman repeating her "aging" process from 1951's The_Blue_Veil. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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