HEIDI Official Trailer - Family Drama Movie HD Family movies to share with your kids: Subscribe HERE: Directed. In this movie, Heidi (Shirley Temple) is with a cruel aunt who is tired of taking care of Heidi. Since Heidi's parents are both deceased the aunt decides to take Heidi to her grandfather in the Swiss Mountains. He has lived there alone for many years after the death of his son whom he blames himself for. Being alone for so long has made.
Heidi | |
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Directed by | Allan Dwan |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Written by | Julien Josephson Walter Ferris |
Based on | Heidi by Johanna Spyri |
Starring | Shirley Temple Jean Hersholt Arthur Treacher Mary Nash Marcia Mae Jones Sidney Blackmer |
Music by | David Buttolph Charles Maxwell Ernst Toch |
Cinematography | Arthur Miller |
Edited by | Allen McNeil |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
Release date | |
Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Heidi is a 1937 American musicaldrama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Shirley Temple. The screenplay by Julien Josephson and Walter Ferris was loosely based on the 1881 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 (Jean Hersholt) to live as a companion to Klara, a spoiled, crippled girl (Marcia Mae Jones). The film was a success and Temple enjoyed her third year in a row as number one box office draw.
Plot[edit]
Adelheid, called Heidi (Shirley Temple), is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt Dete (Mady Christians) to her mountain-dwelling hermit grandfather, Adolph (Jean Hersholt). While Adolph behaves coolly toward her at first, her cheery nature turns him warm, and sees him open up to the nearby town.
Heidi is then stolen back by her aunt, to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt am Main as a companion to Klara (Marcia Mae Jones), a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair who is constantly watched by the strict Fräulein Rottenmeier (Mary Nash). Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.
When Klara's body and spirits mend under Heidi's cheerful companionship, Rottenmeier (who has tried to keep Klara dependent upon her) tries to get rid of Heidi by selling her to the gypsies, but she is stopped by the police. Heidi is rescued and reunited with her grandfather.
Cast[edit]
- Shirley Temple as Heidi, a young orphan living with her hermitted grandfather in an Alpine hut. She is very happy, optimistic and adventurous and she loves her grandfather very much.
- Jean Hersholt as Adolph Kramer, Heidi's grandfather who is grumpy at first but learns to love Heidi as his granddaughter.
- Marcia Mae Jones as Klara Sesemann, a kind and crippled rich girl but very caring, polite and happy towards Heidi.
- Sidney Blackmer as Herr Sesemann, Klara's doting and busy father who wants nothing but happiness for his daughter.
- Thomas Beck as Pastor Schultz, the pastor of the village who talks to Adolph about Heidi's future.
- Arthur Treacher as Andrews, a butler in the Sesemann household who is always nice to Heidi.
- Mary Nash as Fräulein Rottenmeier, the châtelaine of the Sesemann household who is mean and strict on Klara's well-being.
- Delmar Watson as Peter, the goat general of Adolph Kramer's and a good friend of Heidi's.
- Mady Christians as Dete, Heidi's self-interested aunt who has taken care of her for 6 years.
- Helen Westley as Blind Anna, Peter's grandmother.
- Christian Rub as Baker
- Frank Reicher as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Production[edit]
The Alpine scenes were filmed at Lake Arrowhead, California with cast and crew staying in the Lake Arrowhead Hotel or in private chalets. Temple lived in a trailer parked on a hillside and only left it at the last moment to do her scenes – after her stand-in had finished with lights and sound. Temple had at least eight bodyguards who escorted her to and from the trailer and about the area when necessary.[citation needed]
Midway through the shooting of the movie, the dream sequence was added into the script. There were reports that Temple was behind the dream sequence and that she was enthusiastically pushing for it but in her autobiography she vehemently denied this. Her contract gave neither her or her parents any creative control over the movies she was in. While she enjoyed the opportunity to wear braids and to be lifted on high wire, she saw this as the collapse of any serious attempt by the studio to build upon the dramatic role from the previous movie Wee Willie Winkie.[1]
During the scene where Temple's character gets butted by the goat, she initially did the scene herself while completely padded up. After a few takes, however, her mother stepped in and insisted that a double be used. One of the extras, a boy, was dressed up to look like her. The boy's father was so upset over him doubling for a girl that he prohibited him from ever acting again. The double, who was not named, would later share diplomatic duties with Temple in Africa. Temple also had trouble milking the goat. To remedy this, Dwan had a flexible piece of tubing installed in such a way as to make it look as if the goat was being milked.[2]
During the making of the movie, director Dwan had new badges made for the Shirley Temple Police Force. This was an informal group thought up by Temple in 1935, which was, as she described 'an organized system of obligations from whomever I was able to shanghai into membership.'[3] Every child wore one after swearing allegiance and obedience to 'Chief' Temple. Everyone on the set was soon wearing badges with Temple strutting about giving orders to the crew such as 'Take that set down and build me a castle.' They went along with the game.[4]:111
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Temple made one other film in 1937, Wee Willie Winkie. The child actress was growing older and the studio was questioning how much longer she could keep playing 'cute' roles when Heidi was filmed, but she retained her position as number one at the box office for the third year in a row.[5]
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Reception[edit]
Contemporary reviews were generally positive. Frank S. Nugent wrote that the film 'contains all the harmless sweetness and pretty pictures one expects to find on the juvenile shelf,' and found the supporting cast 'quite up to Miss Temple's demanding standard.'[6]Variety gave the cast 'more than a modicum of credit for making the picture what it is' and singled out Hersholt as 'excellent.'[7]Harrison's Reports called it 'a charming picture' that was 'filled with human appeal.'[8] 'Shirley Temple's latest picture is one of her best,' reported Film Daily. 'In every way, the picture is grand entertainment with its sweet sentiment, and its socko hilarity is ever a source of rollicking laughter.'[9] The Lewiston Evening Journal wrote that Temple had never been given 'a more captivating role than that of Heidi,' adding, 'The story is of the old-fashioned type but we accept it uncritically with its improbabilities, its hectic race at the end, its tears, its laughter - it is so very human in its appeal.'[10]John Mosher of The New Yorker was less enthusiastic, writing, 'There seems something rather musty and familiar about most of the predicaments in this movie.'[11]
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
- 2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated[12]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Shirley Temple Black, 'Child Star: An Autobiography' (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988), 192-193.
- ^Shirley Temple Black, 'Child Star: An Autobiography' (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988), 190-192.
- ^Shirley Temple Black, 'Child Star: An Autobiography' (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988), 89.
- ^Edwards, Anne (1988). Shirley Temple: American Princess. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
- ^Passafiume, Andrea. 'Heidi (1937)'. Turner Classic Movies. Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
- ^The New York Times Film Reviews, Volume 2: 1932-1938. The New York Times Company & Arno Press. 1970. p. 1441.
- ^'Film Reviews'. Variety. New York: Variety, Inc. November 10, 1937. p. 18.
- ^'Heidi'. Harrison's Reports. New York: Harrison's Reports, Inc.: 171 October 23, 1937.
- ^'Reviews of the New Films'. Film Daily. New York: Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc.: 6 October 12, 1937.
- ^'Shirley Temple Wins All Hearts As Orphan Heidi'. Lewiston Evening Journal. Lewiston, Maine: 12. October 27, 1937.
- ^Mosher, John (November 13, 1937). 'The Current Cinema'. The New Yorker. New York: F-R Publishing Corp. p. 98.
- ^'AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers Nominees'(PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-14.
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Sources[edit]
- Windeler, Robert (1992) [1978], The Films of Shirley Temple, New York: Carol Publishing Group
External links[edit]
- Heidi on IMDb
- Heidi at AllMovie
- Heidi at the TCM Movie Database
- Heidi at the American Film Institute Catalog
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Heidi | |
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Directed by | Paul Marcus |
Produced by | Christopher Figg Martyn Auty |
Written by | Brian Finch[1] |
Based on | Heidi by Johanna Spyri |
Starring | Emma Bolger Max von Sydow Geraldine Chaplin Diana Rigg |
Music by | Jocelyn Pook |
Cinematography | Peter Sinclair |
Edited by | David Rees |
Production company | Piccadilly Pictures Surefire Films Storm Entertainment Suitable Viewing Lux Vide |
Distributed by | Storm Entertainment Warner Bros. (United States) |
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104 minutes | |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Heidi is a 2005 British family film directed by Paul Marcus. It is based on the iconic 1881 novel Heidi by Johanna Spyri, and stars Irish child actress Emma Bolger in the title role, alongside Max Von Sydow and Diana Rigg.
Plot[edit]
The story is about the titular young girl who goes to stay with her grandfather, in the Swiss Alps. She becomes close friend of the young boy, Peter the goatherd and often she goes with him and his goats on the mountains. Later, she goes to stay with the rich family Sesemann in Frankfurt, to be a hired companion to Clara Sesemann, who is regarded as an invalid. However, the Sesemanns' strict housekeeper, Fräulein Rottenmeier, views the household disruptions as wanton misbehavior, and places Heidi under more and more restraint. Soon Heidi is terribly homesick, and grows alarmingly pale. Her one diversion is learning to read and write, motivated by her desire to go home and read to Peter's blind grandmother. Clara's own grandmother visits the children and becomes a friend to Heidi. After becoming very homesick and ill, Heidi returns to her beloved grandfather. Heidi and Clara continue to keep in touch and exchange letters. Clara's doctor recommends that Clara visit Heidi. He feels assured that the fresh mountain air and the wholesome companionship will do her good. While a shy Rottenmeier stays behind after a heart to heart conversation with Clara's grandmother, Clara herself makes the journey again the next season and spends a wonderful summer with Heidi and becomes stronger on goat's milk and fresh mountain air. But one day, Peter, who grows jealous of Heidi and Clara's friendship, pushes Clara's empty wheelchair down the mountain to its destruction. While attempting to bring the wheelchair back to Clara, Heidi is about to drop into a ravine, and Clara, running to save her, without realizing it, starts to walk. Her grandmother and father are amazed and overcome with joy to see Clara walking and the doctor promises to provide permanent care for Heidi, if there comes a time when her grandfather's no longer able to do so.
The film eventually ends with a still of Heidi playing ball with her friends.
Cast[edit]
- Emma Bolger as Heidi
- Max Von Sydow as Grandfather
- Geraldine Chaplin as Rottenmeier
- Diana Rigg as Grandmamma
- Pauline McLynn as Aunt Dete
- Sam Friend as Peter
- Jessica Claridge as Clara
- Del Synnott as Sebastian
- Kellie Shirley as Tinette
- Robert Bathurst as Mr. Sessemann
- Oliver Ford Davies as Dr. Classen
- Caroline Pegg as Bridget
- Jessica James as Grannie
- Alexander Main as Frankfurt Boy
- Karl Johnson as Old Man
Production[edit]
The soundtrack is composed by Jocelyn Pook. The mountain scenes were shot mostly in Julian Alps in Slovenia, scenes of Frankfurt in Ljubljana and willage scenes in Neath, and Llanelli, Wales. The Sessemann house in Frankfurt was shot at Stradey Castle in Llanelli.[2]
References[edit]
- ^Staff Reporter (2014). 'Tribute to script writer (From The Bolton News)'. theboltonnews.co.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^WalesOnline (13 August 2005). ''Heidi hi to the Welsh Alps' WalesOnline'. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
External links[edit]
- Heidi on IMDb
- Heidi at Rotten Tomatoes
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