Title: So Big (1953 film)
Content: Jane Wyman as Selina DeJong ; Sterling Hayden as Pervis DeJong ; Steve Forrest as Dirk DeJong ; Nancy Olson as Dallas O'Mara ; Walter Coy as Roelf Pool ; Elisabeth Fraser as Julie Hempel ; Jacques Aubuchon as August Hempel ; Martha Hyer as Paula Hempel ; Roland Winters as Klaas Pool ; Ruth Swanson as Maartje Pool ; Lillian Kemble-Cooper as Mrs. Fister ; Richard Beymer as Roelf, ages 12–16 ; Tommy Rettig as Dirk, age 8 ; James Dime as a man at auction. 
Title: So Big (1953 film)
Content:  So Big was adapted as an hour-long radio play on Studio One's December 29, 1947 broadcast with Joan Blondell, and on Lux Radio Theatre's September 21, 1954 broadcast with Ida Lupino and Robert Stack.
Title: So Big (1953 film)
Content:  So Big is a 1953 American drama film that stars Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden and Steve Forrest, directed by Robert Wise. 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.
Title: So Big (1932 film)
Content:  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.
Title: So Big (1932 film)
Content:  Andre Sennwald of The New York Times called the film "a faithful and methodical treatment of Miss Ferber's novel, but without fire or drama or the vitality of the original." He added, "A fine actress, Miss Stanwyck seems ill-suited to a role that hustles her in jerky steps from girlhood to old age; a role in which she is asked to express rugged grandeur and the beauty of a life well-lived from behind a mask of grease paint ... Little Dickie Moore is delightful as the younger So Big. Bette Davis ... is unusually competent." Variety noted, ""Wellman's endeavor at kaleidoscopic flashes in the life 
Title: So Big (1953 film)
Content:  he grows older he is nicknamed So Big. Dirk, like Roelf, exhibits signs of artistic abilities. His mother encourages him, despite her husband's disapproval. When the boy is eight years old, Pervus dies and Selina struggles to run the farm alone. She and Dirk travel to the Chicago Haymarket to sell their produce, but no one there will deal with a woman. Facing financial difficulties, Selina reunites with Julie, now the divorced mother of two. Her father offers to invest in Selina's plan to grow exotic vegetables. Her asparagus is a huge success and she is able to send Dirk to college to study architecture. Following graduation, he finds employment as a draughtsman and continues his relationship with Julie's daughter Paula, a social climber who convinces him to forgo his 
Title: So Big (1932 film)
Content: Barbara Stanwyck as Selina Peake De Jong ; George Brent as Roelf Pool ; Dickie Moore as Dirk De Jong (younger) ; Bette Davis as Miss Dallas O'Mara ; Mae Madison as Julie Hempel ; Hardie Albright as Dirk De Jong ; Alan Hale, Sr. as Klass Poole ; Earle Foxe as Pervus De Jong ; Robert Warwick as Simeon Peake, gambler ; Dorothy Peterson as Maartje Pool ; Noel Francis as Mabel, a "fancy woman" ; Dick Winslow as Roelf, age 12 ; Lionel Belmore as Reverend Dekker (uncredited) ; Olin Howland as Jacob Pogadunk (uncredited) ; John Larkin as Jeff (uncredited) ; Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Tebbit (uncredited) Bette Davis, cast in the relatively small role of Dallas O'Mara, filmed So Big! simultaneously with The Rich Are Always with Us. Following The Man Who Played God, it 
Title: So Big (novel)
Content:  So Big was presented on Stories America Loves in 1942. Joan Blaine had the role of Selena Peake in the adaptation.
Title: So Big (1924 film)
Content:  So Big is a 1924 American silent drama 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.
Title: So Big (1953 film)
Content:  to Chicago and gets himself infected with false notions of a successful career. Here John Twist's adaptation and Mr. Wise's direction are unsure, and the acting by all and sundry has a specious and artificial quality...As a consequence of its downward tangent toward the end, the whole picture loses force. The poignance of the mother's disappointment in her dearly loved son goes awry. Even so, the performance of Miss Wyman holds up right through to the end, and the character she sets throughout the first part stands firm amid the flow of glycerin tears." Radio Times rated the film three 

Question: Who was the director of So Big?
Answer: Robert Wise.
Robert Earl Wise.