So Big (1932 film)

So Big!
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWilliam A. Wellman
Written byJ. Grubb Alexander
Robert Lord
Based onSo Big
1924 novel
by Edna Ferber
Produced byJack L. Warner
StarringBarbara Stanwyck
CinematographySidney Hickox
Edited byWilliam Holmes
Music byW. Franke Harling
Production
company
Warner Bros.
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • April 30, 1932 (1932-04-30)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

So Big is a 1932 pre-Code American drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck. The screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander and Robert Lord is based on the 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, by Edna Ferber.

So Big was the second full-scale screen adaptation of the Ferber novel. The first was a 1924 silent film of the same name directed by Charles Brabin and starring Colleen Moore. A 1953 remake was directed by Robert Wise and starred Jane Wyman.[1] The story was also made as a short in 1930, with Helen Jerome Eddy, Jody K. Lance.

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