So Big

This, the third version of Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize novel, was not so big at all, either at the box office or with the critics. First filmed as a silent in 1925 starring Colleen Moore, it was done as a short in 1930, as directed by Bryan Foy, starring Helen Jerome Eddy, John Litel, Gardner James, and Marian Marsh. This very short picture seems long as they attempt to portray many years in the life of Stanwyck et al, and fail. O'Day is the young daughter of gambler Warwick, who sends her to a fancy school. She grows up to be Stanwyck, and when Warwick dies without a cent in his trousers, she is out in the cold. Madison's father, Kibbee, enlisted to help, ...