A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.
Acting
Jane Wyman ages 30 years without leaving the frame.
Cinematography
Technicolor wheat fields that'll ruin your beige apartment.
Director
Robert Wise
Jane Wyman
Selina De Jong
Sterling Hayden
Pervis De Jong
Steve Forrest
Dirk De Jong
Nancy Olson
Dallas O'Mara
Elisabeth Fraser
Julie Hempel
Martha Hyer
Paula Hempel
Roland Winters
Klaas Pool
Richard Beymer
Roelf, Age 12-16
Sue George
Girl (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Ed (uncredited)
Vera Miles
Girl (uncredited)
Jacques Aubuchon
August Hempel
Tommy Rettig
Dirk, age 8
Dorothy Christy
Widow Paarlenberg
Walter Coy
Roelf Pool
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the third adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel; Barbara Stanwyck played Selina in the 1932 version.
The title's meaning—Selina asking 'how big is a big picture?'—lands differently once you know she never answers it herself, only watches others try.
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