Heidi

Heidi

88 mins | Drama, Family, Music | Oct. 15, 1937

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.

Heidi

88 mins | Drama, Family, Music | Oct. 15, 1937

Heidi
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Heidi
Directors Allan Dwan
Writers Johanna Spyri, Julien Josephson, Walter Ferris

Cast

Shirley Temple

as Heidi Kramer

Jean Hersholt

as Adolph Kramer

Arthur Treacher

as Andrews

Helen Westley

as Blind Anna

Thomas Beck

as Pastor Schultz

Mary Nash

as Fraulein Rottenmeier

Sidney Blackmer

as Sesemann

Pauline Moore

as Elsa

Marcia Mae Jones

as Klara Sesemann

Mady Christians

as Dete

Delmar Watson

as Peter

Egon Brecher

as Inn Keeper

Christian Rub

as Baker

George Humbert

as Organ Grinder

Sig Ruman

as Police Captain

Bodil Rosing

as Village Woman (uncredited)

Dorothy Vernon

as Church Member (uncredited)