06 Jul 1929
Black Magic
On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the three are rehabilitated and everything turns out happily."
So Big
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 Billed Cast
Colleen Moore Selina Peake
John Bowers Pervus DeJong
Ben Lyon Dirk DeJong
Wallace Beery Klaus Poole
Gladys Brockwell Maartje Poole
Jean Hersholt Aug Hempel
Charlotte Merriam Julie Hempel
Dot Farley Widow Paarlenburg
Ford Sterling Jacob Hoogenduck
Frankie Darro Dirk DeJong (child)
Henry Hebert William Storm (as Henry Herbert)
Dorothy Brock Dirk DeJong (infant)
Rosemary Theby Paula Storm
Phyllis Haver Dallas O'Meara
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