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So Big! (book)
So Big may refer to: * ''So Big'' (novel), a 1924 novel written by Edna Ferber * ''So Big'' (1924 film), a 1924 film adaptation directed by Charles Brabin * ''So Big'' (1932 film), a 1932 film adaptation starring Barbara Stanwyck * ''So Big'' (1953 film), a 1953 film adaptation directed by Robert Wise * ''So Big!'' (book), a Sesame Street spin-off book, see Sesame Beginnings Sesame Beginnings is a line of products and a video series, spun off from the children's television series ''Sesame Street'', featuring baby versions of the characters. The line is targeted towards infants and their parents, and products are design ... * "So Big" (song), a song by Iyaz {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Big (novel)
''So Big'' is a 1924 novel written by Edna Ferber. The book was inspired by the life of Antje Paarlberg in the Dutch community of South Holland, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. It was a best-seller in the United States and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1925. Plot summary The story follows the life of a young woman, Selina Peake De Jong, who decides to be a school teacher in farming country. During her stay on the Pool family farm, she encourages the young Roelf Pool to follow his interests, which include art. Upon his mother's death, Roelf runs away to France. Meanwhile, Selina marries a Dutch farmer named Pervus. They have a child together, Dirk, whom she nicknames "So Big," from the common question and answer "How big is baby? " "''So-o-o-o'' big!" (Ferber, 2). Pervus becomes ill and dies, and Selina is forced to take over working on the farm to give Dirk a future. As Dirk gets older, he works as an architect but is more interested in making money than creating buildings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Big (1924 Film)
''So Big'' is a 1924 American silent film based on Edna Ferber's 1924 novel of the same name which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1925. It was produced by independent producer Earl Hudson the film and distributed through Associated First National. Unseen for decades, it is considered to be a lost film. Only a trailer survives at the Library of Congress. (Wayback Machine). Retrieved July 21, 2018 Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, after returning from a tour of Europe with her father and finishing a course at a fashionable finishing school in the year 1888, Selina Peake (Moore) is shocked to find that her father is a gambler and has been killed du ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Big (1932 Film)
''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. Plot Following the death of her mother, Selina Peake and her father, Simeon, move to Chicago, where she enrolls in finishing school. Her father is killed, leaving her penniless, and Selina's friend, Julie Hemple, helps her find a job as a schoolteacher in a small Dutch community. Selina moves in with the Poole family and tutors their son Roelf. Selina eventually marries immigrant farmer Pervus De Jong, and gives birth to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Big (1953 Film)
''So Big'' is a 1953 American Drama Western film directed by Robert Wise and starring Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden and Nancy Olson.''Variety'' film review; September 30, 1953, page 6.''Harrison's Reports'' film review; October 3, 1953, page 159. The screenplay by John Twist was based on the 1924 novel by Edna Ferber. It was the third adaptation of the book, following a 1924 silent film with Colleen Moore and '' So Big!'' with Barbara Stanwyck, released in 1932. Plot In the late 1890s, boarding school student Selina Peake learns of the death of her father, who has left her penniless as the result of bad business transactions. August Hempel, the father of her best friend Julie, secures her a teaching position in New Holland, a small Dutch farming community outside Chicago. There she rents a room in the home of Klaas Pool, who lives with his unhappy wife Maartje and intelligent but troubled adolescent son Roelf. After discovering the boy has an ear for music, Selina gives Roelf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Big! (book)
So Big may refer to: * ''So Big'' (novel), a 1924 novel written by Edna Ferber * ''So Big'' (1924 film), a 1924 film adaptation directed by Charles Brabin * ''So Big'' (1932 film), a 1932 film adaptation starring Barbara Stanwyck * ''So Big'' (1953 film), a 1953 film adaptation directed by Robert Wise * ''So Big!'' (book), a Sesame Street spin-off book, see Sesame Beginnings Sesame Beginnings is a line of products and a video series, spun off from the children's television series ''Sesame Street'', featuring baby versions of the characters. The line is targeted towards infants and their parents, and products are design ... * "So Big" (song), a song by Iyaz {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sesame Beginnings
Sesame Beginnings is a line of products and a video series, spun off from the children's television series ''Sesame Street'', featuring baby versions of the characters. The line is targeted towards infants and their parents, and products are designed to increase family interactivity. Product line The line was launched mid-2005 in Canada, with a line of products exclusive to a family of Canadian retailers that includes Loblaws, Fortinos, and Zehrs. The initial offering included apparel, health and body, home, and seasonal products. Soon after, the line expanded to products, including Random House books, available in the United States. Target is the primary retailer for the items in the US. Other ''Sesame Beginnings'' licensors include Crown Crafts (bedding), Fisher-Price (infant toys), BBC (footwear), Children's Apparel Network (department and specialty store layette, newborn and infant apparel), Hamco, Blue Ridge, Baby Boom, and AD Sutton. All products in the ''Sesame Beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
