Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.

• 20th Century Fox
• Shirley Temple
• Jean Hersholt
• Arthur Treacher
• Helen Westley
• Thomas Beck
• Mary Nash
• Sidney Blackmer
• Pauline Moore