Heidi
1937, Film, 88 min, Drama, Family, Musical, English, United States, MoviePedia score 68
Shirley's A Little Swiss Miss In The Loveliest Story of Her Career !
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
Directed by Allan Dwan
Cast
- Shirley Temple as Heidi
- Jean Hersholt as Grandfather
- Arthur Treacher as Andrews
- Helen Westley as Blind Anna
- Thomas Beck as Pastor Schultz
- Mary Nash as Fraulein Rottenmeier
- Sidney Blackmer as Herr Sesemann
- Pauline Moore as Elsa
- Mady Christians as Dete
- Marcia Mae Jones as Klara Sesemann
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