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At the beginning of the story, she is five years old. Heidi loves her grandfather (uncle Alp) and the beauty and fresh air of the mountains. Only Fräulein Rottenmeier calls her by her given name "Adelheid", in some translations "Adelaide". Grandfather: Heidi's paternal grandfather, a cantankerous loner who lives in a hut high in the mountains.
Shirley Temple as Heidi, an 8-year-old orphan living with her hermitted grandfather in an Alpine hut. She is very happy, optimistic and adventurous. Jean Hersholt as Adolph Kramer, Heidi's grandfather who is grumpy at first but grows to care deeply for Heidi. Marcia Mae Jones as Klara Sesemann, a wealthy, disabled girl prone to tantrums ...
Heidi runs up the Alm, calling out her grandfather's name. The others run after her. They find the elderly man, with his goats, under the fir trees. The grandfather and some of the villagers rebuild the house, with many improvements. Grandfather tells Heidi and Jamy legends that excite the visitor through the rest of the summer vacation.
Heidi's only relatives are her Aunt Dete, from her mother's side, and her paternal grandfather, the Alm-Onji, from her father's side. Alm-Onji (アルムおんじ, Arumu onji) The Alm-Onji, or Onji (Alm-Öhi in German), is never identified by any proper name; he is Heidi's estranged grandfather, whose deceased son was Heidi's father. He is an ...
Dete decides to take Heidi to live in the Alps with her grandfather. Still distraught over the death of his son, he initially resents Heidi's presence. However, as the story progresses, Heidi's innocence and charm break through her grandfather's tough exterior, and she also makes friends with a young goat herder named Peter. Later, Heidi's ...
Among the debris of her home, Heidi Luest discovers a crusted silver spoon given to her as a child by her grandfather. - David Butow/Redux for CNN Old cans of movie film belonging to Heidi Luest's ...
Soon, Heidi's homesickness manifests in sleepwalking around the house at night, scaring the house staff who had mistaken her for being a ghost. On the doctor's recommendation, Klara's father returns Heidi to her grandfather, upsetting Klara who feels that her only friend is abandoning her. Heidi and Alpöhi joyfully reunite in the Alps.
In her autobiographical "Scarecrow," Wisconsin native Heidi Armbruster relives her farmer father's final days. Her play is both funny and poignant.