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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 Empires

A Heidi Double Feature - A Great Story! 5/4/2014 0 Comments </hr> 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 Empires

A Heidi Double Feature - A Great Story! 5/4/2014 0 Comments </hr> 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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Heidi Quotes:

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: You're going for the child?
Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: I am.
Pastor Schultz: You're not walking all the way to Frankfurt? It's over 100 miles!
Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: I shall get there.
Pastor Schultz: Wait, neighbor.
Franz: Let us lend you enough for your railway fare.
Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: That's kind of you, Franz, but my legs will carry me. And I have money to bring us back on the train.
Pastor Schultz, Franz: Auf Wiedersehen. Good luck, Adolph. God speed to you, neighbor.
Heidi: How do you do, Fräulein Rottenmeier?
Fräulein Rottenmeier: What is your name?
Heidi: Heidi.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Heidi? Ridiculous. What name did they give you when you were baptized?
Heidi: I don't remember that.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Are you being impudent?
Dete: No, Fräulein. She didn't understand. She was baptized Adelheid.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Hmm. She looks too young. How old is she?
Dete: She's older than she appears. She's nearly eleven.
Heidi: Aunt Dete doesn't tell the truth. I'm eight years old today.
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.
Klara Sesemann: Isn't Heidi the funniest little thing? I'm so glad she's going to stay.
Andrews, the Butler: Is she?
Klara Sesemann: Yes, but she doesn't know it. The poor dear thinks she's going home today. But she'll be happier here, don't you think? And I'll have some new dresses made for her.
Andrews, the Butler: Do you think you could manage a new hat?
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Heidi Facts
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."
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.
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.
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.
The movie was filmed during the summer, and Jean Hersholt's heavy costume once caused him to collapse from heat exhaustion.
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