Heidi
Drama
Family
Music
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.
1937-10-15
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Cast
Director
Allan Dwan
Shirley Temple as Heïdi
Jean Hersholt as Adolph Kramer
Arthur Treacher as Andrews
Helen Westley as Blind Anna
Pauline Moore as Elsa
Thomas Beck as Pastor Schultz
Mary Nash as Fraulein Rottenmeier
Sidney Blackmer as Sesemann
Mady Christians as Dete
Marcia Mae Jones as Klara Sesemann
Delmar Watson as Peter
Egon Brecher as Inn Keeper
George Humbert as Organ Grinder
Sig Ruman as Police Captain
Christian Rub as Baker
Bodil Rosing as Village Woman (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon as Church Member (uncredited)