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After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."Read moreLess
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
The story
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
Cast & crew
Colleen MooreSelina Peake
Joseph De GrasseSimeon Peake
John BowersPervus DeJong
Ben LyonDirk DeJong
Wallace BeeryKlaus Poole
Gladys BrockwellMaartje Poole
Jean HersholtAug Hempel
Charlotte MerriamJulie Hempel
Dot FarleyWidow Paarlenburg
Ford SterlingJacob Hoogenduck
Frankie DarroDirk DeJong (child)
Henry HebertWilliam Storm (as Henry Herbert)Explore the crew
- Director
- Charles Brabin
- Writer
- Adelaide Heilbron
- Producer
- Earl Hudson
- Director of Photography
- Ted D. McCord
- Editor
- Arthur Tavares