 Eight-year-old Heidi (played by Shirley Temple) is orphaned and her selfish maternal Aunt Dete (Mady Christians) takes her to the mountains to live with her grumpy old paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt)and outcast survivalist. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society...through her angelic ways, sheer love, and her adorable personality. When Aunt Dete steals Heidi away to be the companion of a rich man s invalid daughter (Marcia Mae Jones), the grand-father is enraged and sets out to get her back. Back in Frankfurt, loved and adored by everyone she touches except the villainous Housekeeper, Fraulein Rottenmeier (Mary Nash) she thrives but is inwardly very sad and lonely. No matter what anyone tells her, Heidi, with faith, hope, and the stubbornness she inherited from her grandfather, knows that some day she will be reunited with the him and the beloved people of the mountain s little village. [Black-and-white, 1937, 1 hour, 28 minutes.]