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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."

Top Cast

  • Colleen Moore

    Colleen Moore

    Selina Peake

  • Joseph De Grasse

    Joseph De Grasse

    Simeon Peake

  • John Bowers

    John Bowers

    Pervus DeJong

  • Ben Lyon

    Ben Lyon

    Dirk DeJong

  • Wallace Beery

    Wallace Beery

    Klaus Poole

  • Gladys Brockwell

    Gladys Brockwell

    Maartje Poole

  • Jean Hersholt

    Jean Hersholt

    Aug Hempel

  • Charlotte Merriam

    Charlotte Merriam

    Julie Hempel

  • Dot Farley

    Dot Farley

    Widow Paarlenburg

Overview

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."

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