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.

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
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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 manage...