Heidi

1937 88 min ★ 6.9 Drama, Family, Music

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.

Cast

Shirley Temple

Heïdi

Jean Hersholt

Adolph Kramer

Arthur Treacher

Andrews

Helen Westley

Blind Anna

Pauline Moore

Elsa

Thomas Beck

Pastor Schultz

Mary Nash

Fraulein Rottenmeier

Sidney Blackmer

Sesemann

Mady Christians

Dete

Marcia Mae Jones

Klara Sesemann

Details

Director

Allan Dwan

Screenplay

Walter Ferris

Tagline

"Shirley's A Little Swiss Miss In The Loveliest Story of Her Career !"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

20th Century Fox

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

September 4, 2022

★ 7/10

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 whiske...