Heidi (1937)

G10/15/1937Drama, Family, Music1h 28m
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Shirley's A Little Swiss Miss In The Loveliest Story of Her Career !

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Shirley Temple

    Heidi Kramer

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    Jean Hersholt

    Adolph Kramer

  3. Cast 1

    Delmar Watson

    Peter

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    Marcia Mae Jones

    Klara Sesemann

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    Arthur Treacher

    Andrews

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    Helen Westley

    Blind Anna

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    Thomas Beck

    Pastor Schultz

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    Mary Nash

    Fraulein Rottenmeier

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    Sidney Blackmer

    Sesemann

Shirley Temple wasn't even ten years old when she starred in this rather enjoyable adaptation of the timeless Johanna Spyri tale. She is the eponymous young girl sent to live on the mountain with her solitary grandfather (Jean Hersholt). Original unimpressed by this arrangement, she gradually manages to wear down the old man and soon has him eating out of her hands. Suddenly, though, she is whisked away to the wealthy "Sesemann" household where she is to be a companion for the invalid "Klara" (Marcia Mae Jones). Despite the best efforts of the rather austere governess "Frauline Rottenmeier" (M...