Heidi (1937)

Heidi: No! No! You musn't take him away! He's telling the truth! He is my grandfather! My really and truly grandfather! Please! Please let him go!
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Come on! Don't be hysterical!
Heidi: Grandfather!
Police Captain: We'll want you for the trial. Take your child home.
Heidi: I am not her child! She's a bad lady! She tried to sell me to gypsies! Please. Please let the Grandfather take me home. He didn't mean to do anything bad. I'll work hard and pay back for everything he broke. So will Swanli and Bearli.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Pay no attention to her. She'll be all right when I get her to bed.
Heidi: I won't go with her! She broke my snowstorm and sent my Aunt Dete away so she couldn't take me home to the mountains! If you don't believe me, just ask Herr Sesemann. He'll tell you the truth.
Police Captain: Herr Sesemann? What has Herr Sesemann to do with this?
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Nothing. Nothing at all.
Heidi: He has too. Aunt Dete brought be there to play with Klara, and I taught her how to walk.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Oh, this is ridiculous. Come along.
Police Lieutenant: Now just a minute.
Police Captain: Well now, lieutenant?
Police Lieutenant: Perhaps we'd better send for Herr Sesemann.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Oh! Absurd! We - Well, we visited the Sesemann house tonight. Christmas, you know. My sister's governess there. It would be highly improper to disturb Herr Sesemann at this hour.
Police Lieutenant: I think you'd better wait until we hear what Herr Sesemann has got to say.
Heidi: Grandfather! Grandfather!

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Fräulein Rottenmeier: Such behavior is inexcusable! You shall be punished severely!
Klara Sesemann: Don't you touch her or I'll tell my papa!
Fräulein Rottenmeier: All right, dear, don't excite yourself. I had forgotten that it might upset you. Adelheid, you shall spend the rest of the day in your room.
Heidi: But I can't do that! Aunt Dete is going to take me home!
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Your aunt went away this morning.
Heidi: She went away? But she's coming back?
Fräulein Rottenmeier: No, she's not. I discharged her.
Heidi: But she's got to take me home!
Fräulein Rottenmeier: I'm afraid not. She cares nothing about you. She told me to sell you to the Gypsies.
Klara Sesemann: Oh, Fräulein, don't!
Fräulein Rottenmeier: I doubt whether you shall ever see your Aunt Dete again.

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Fräulein Rottenmeier: [reading] "The quality of a young lady's breeding is indicated by her deportment when elders are present. At such time, her manners should be sedate."
Klara Sesemann: It's time for them to be here, Fräulein!
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Remember, Klara, no excitement. You're still an invalid. "The habit of interruption should always be frowned upon. The well-bred young lady always waits until her elders are silent."
Klara Sesemann: I wonder what she'll be like.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Your father expects a healthy, unspoiled mountain child of your age to share your studies. Personally, I think the whole plan is a mistake.
Klara Sesemann: Papa thought it might be good for me to have a playmate.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: But you have me. Don't I give you my entire time and devotion?
Klara Sesemann: Yes, and it's very kind of you, but I don't have much fun.

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For the scene in which Heidi is butted by a goat and falls over, Shirley Temple was butted for the first few takes. Although she later said that being butted was not painful, her mother Gertrude Temple became concerned for her safety and insisted that a stunt double be used.
As she had worried about Jane Withers in Bright Eyes three years before, Shirley Temple's mother, Gertrude Temple, worried that Marcia Mae Jones would steal the spotlight from her daughter in this movie. However, Shirley and Marcia Mae worked well with each other and appeared together again in The Little Princess.
Delmar Watson was not allowed to study his lines in advance. Because director Allan Dwan wanted Peter to seem slow, Watson was not given his lines until the day before they were filmed.
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