So Big (1932 film)
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| Directed by | William A. Wellman |
| Written by | J. Grubb Alexander Robert Lord |
| Based on | So Big 1924 novel by Edna Ferber |
| Produced by | Jack L. Warner |
| Starring | Barbara Stanwyck |
| Cinematography | Sidney Hickox |
| Edited by | William Holmes |
| Music by | W. Franke Harling |
Production company | Warner Bros. |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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. The story was also made as a short in 1930, with Helen Jerome Eddy, Jody K. Lance.