Edward Morgan, rich trustee of an orphanage, meets and is entranced with little Elizabeth and her older sister Mary. He adopts them and they come to adore Edward. Mary falls in love with Edward, and he has the same feelings; Elizabeth plays matchmaker.

When her aunt tires of caring for her, orphan Heidi goes to live in the Alps with her gruff grandfather, who comes to adore her. Eventually placed with another family, Heidi fights to join her grandfather again.

A girl helps her Depression-poor father get a job after she befriends a cantankerous millionaire.

Believing that it is good for their daughter Wendy, Joe Ballantine and his wife Kit decide to retire their vaudeville act and move the family to a small New England town. But despite Wendy's many attempts to charm the locals, she and her family are given the cold shoulder. This is, until a hurricane hits the town, and because of their generosity, strength and conviction in the face of disaster, it appears that the troupers just might win over the...