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Heidi is a american film of genre Drama directed by Allan Dwan released in USA on 15 october 1937 with Shirley Temple
Heidi (1937)
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Add to a movie listHeidi is a 1937 American musical drama film directed by Allan Dwan. The screenplay by Julien Josephson and Walter Ferris was based on the 1880 children's story of the same name by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. The film is about an orphan named Heidi (Temple) who is taken from her grandfather (Hersholt) to live as a companion to Klara, a spoiled, crippled girl (Jones). The film was a success and Temple enjoyed her third year in a row as number one box office draw.
The film is currently available on DVD, which features the original black and white, and newly colorized, versions of it.
Synopsis
Adelheid, called Heidi (Shirley Temple), is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather (Jean Hersholt). She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara (Marcia Mae Jones), a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair.Actors
Shirley Temple
(Heidi Kramer)
Jean Hersholt
(Adolph Kramer)
Arthur Treacher
(Andrews)
Mary Nash
(Fraulein Rottenmeier)
Marcia Mae Jones
(Klara Sesemann)
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