Heidi (1937) | |
| Director(s) | Allan Dwan |
| Producer(s) | Raymond Griffith (associate), Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Top Genres | Drama, Family, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Children, Christmas |
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Heidi (1937) was a Family - Drama Film directed by Allan Dwan and produced by Raymond Griffith and Darryl F. Zanuck.
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A Heidi Double Feature - A Great Story!
By Clayton on May 4, 2014 From Phantom EmpiresA Heidi Double Feature - A Great Story! 5/4/2014 0 Comments From the outset, I'll state for the record that I'm aware that it's not cool to like movies like Heidi...especially if you're a straight... Read full article
A Heidi Double Feature - A Great Story!
By Clayton on May 4, 2014 From Phantom EmpiresA Heidi Double Feature - A Great Story! 5/4/2014 0 Comments From the outset, I'll state for the record that I'm aware that it's not cool to like movies like Heidi...especially if you're a straight male. That said, I d... Read full article
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Quotes from
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!
Dete: I'm Dete, sister of Gretchen, who married your son Tobias. I've brought their orphan to live with you. I've taken care of her for six years, but I've got a job in Frankfurt now, with a rich family, and I can't be bothered with her any more. I know you hated Tobias and Gretchen, but you've got to take their daughter just the same.
Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: Get out!
Dete: Here she is, her name's Heidi.
[Dete leaves]
Heidi: How do you do, Grandfather? I'm very glad to see you.
Pastor Schultz: I do not know this Adolph Kramer, but the village thinks that the child should be taken away from him.
Blind Anna: You've just come to Dörfli, Herr Pastor, or you'd understand why.
Pastor Schultz: They say you have known Kramer for 50 years. What sort of a man is he?
Blind Anna: Who knows? He was a grand young man, except for his wild temper. And his son grew up just like him. Tobias wanted to marry a girl from Mayenfeld. Adolph disliked her and forbade it, but the boy married her just the same and brought her home. Adolph turned them away in a rage and told Tobias never to come back until he'd given up the girl.
Pastor Schultz: But why should the village hate him and fear him so?
Blind Anna: Feuds and weeds grow quickly, Herr Pastor. The people of the village sided with the boy and the father cursed them and went and built himself a hut on the mountain. Since that day, he's never spoken to a living soul.
Pastor Schultz: Frau Anna, is the child safe with him?
Blind Anna: God knows. Living alone like that has made him a strange creature.
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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!
Dete: I'm Dete, sister of Gretchen, who married your son Tobias. I've brought their orphan to live with you. I've taken care of her for six years, but I've got a job in Frankfurt now, with a rich family, and I can't be bothered with her any more. I know you hated Tobias and Gretchen, but you've got to take their daughter just the same.
Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: Get out!
Dete: Here she is, her name's Heidi.
[Dete leaves]
Heidi: How do you do, Grandfather? I'm very glad to see you.
Pastor Schultz: I do not know this Adolph Kramer, but the village thinks that the child should be taken away from him.
Blind Anna: You've just come to Dörfli, Herr Pastor, or you'd understand why.
Pastor Schultz: They say you have known Kramer for 50 years. What sort of a man is he?
Blind Anna: Who knows? He was a grand young man, except for his wild temper. And his son grew up just like him. Tobias wanted to marry a girl from Mayenfeld. Adolph disliked her and forbade it, but the boy married her just the same and brought her home. Adolph turned them away in a rage and told Tobias never to come back until he'd given up the girl.
Pastor Schultz: But why should the village hate him and fear him so?
Blind Anna: Feuds and weeds grow quickly, Herr Pastor. The people of the village sided with the boy and the father cursed them and went and built himself a hut on the mountain. Since that day, he's never spoken to a living soul.
Pastor Schultz: Frau Anna, is the child safe with him?
Blind Anna: God knows. Living alone like that has made him a strange creature.
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Facts about
The movie was filmed during the summer, and Jean Hersholt's heavy costume once caused him to collapse from heat exhaustion.
Shirley Temple suggested the idea and placement of the "In Our Little Wooden Shoes" sequence because she felt the song would liven up the movie.
Marcia Mae Jones was four years older and eighteen inches taller than Shirley Temple when this movie was filmed. Jones later recalled of the scene in which Temple helps her crippled character to walk that if she had really leaned on Temple, she "would have crushed her."
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Shirley Temple suggested the idea and placement of the "In Our Little Wooden Shoes" sequence because she felt the song would liven up the movie.
Marcia Mae Jones was four years older and eighteen inches taller than Shirley Temple when this movie was filmed. Jones later recalled of the scene in which Temple helps her crippled character to walk that if she had really leaned on Temple, she "would have crushed her."
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