John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
那还是一个靠影片第一个镜头来决定影片质量的年代，真的是船过水无痕
的确是个文学作品改编的，看完了闷闷的，故事大约是探索了下自称的"unnatural mother"的内心世界，挺复杂的。没有olivia colman做女主这电影可能真的撑不起来。今年这两个女明星导演处女作（另一个passing）都挺有意思，我不能说特喜欢，但都挺有独到的视角的。
其实电影主旨是我们一直所缺少的，这个世界不停的在夸大“母亲”这个角色的伟大，去歌颂和赞美，却又给“母亲”戴上一个个沉重的枷锁，不断地施压和道德绑架。我们不断重复着二胎三孩，不断歌颂着伟大，从根本上就忘记了“母亲”这个角色是由人所构成的，是有自己的感情和想法的，而不单单只是生育工具和理应伟大的。
竟然没认出达妹！这个造型可不比五十度灰好多了好吗 发现好多女演员都走上了导演的道路还挺成功 扎实的剧本加上几个好演员 电影基本就成功了80%
飞机片。理解了Accented Cinema为什么说这部片要在大荧幕上看，Coleman的怼脸拍真是太多啦。以四部曲终篇为出发点，但是对于书的引用却极为含蓄，也算有点意思。
太，长，了。连着两天看了两部过分长的电影，失去耐心了，导演能不能都在100分钟内把故事讲好讲完？？？？
这个片子没有爆真的很不科学，费兰特比较迂回的一面都在这儿了。推荐和小妈妈对看，同一个题目的两重路径。
上个项目的摄影推荐给导演的片例，据说故事概念和情节非常相似。项目结束才有时间打开，虽然没看出多少相似，但被影像风格调度深深吸引，尤其前三十分钟，好看。
中间和女背包客以及和Nina的几段镜头太柔情太暧昧了，感觉她们在一起会快乐自由很多
剧情有些空泛，几位英法意半老徐娘东拼西凑，幸好有埃德-哈里斯提振一下 。
當新電影遇上黑幫片，誤入都市叢林的小混混，黑色套裝的女人，「安啦」應該就是指安非他命，想到當年電視政令廣告天天在宣導反安毒，我爸當年也租了一捲錄影帶回家放著好幾天，他可能以為會是港式黑幫片吧！見證台灣新一代音樂人的誕生，現有資源畫質實在太渣了，等修復或許觀感會提升，2022.01.22
满分没有理由 the most generous thing you can give is your attention, this film had mine
不得不说的是，罗大佑和林强《皇后大道东》的Live在如此糟糕的画质依然穿透力max，比故事本身精彩多了。
（8.0/10）相当惊艳的处女作了，金球导演提名看来确实。女主的一生本身就有问题，对旁人的刻意疏离。对背包客的担忧、对老教授的恶意揣测、对自己母亲的回避、对当地家族的恶意、偷窃娃娃后时刻以为总有奸臣要害朕的联想，这些行为的极端结果也意味着抛弃家庭尤其是孩子的必然。而这次度假中从妮娜母女身上看到的自己的过往却恰恰治好了心结。这是一条可能不大会被凸显的暗线。而最明显的区别是，吉伦哈尔搭配科尔曼让我们看到了几乎所有男性导演电影中无法出现的女性视角，主要是那些碎片化的日常生活的处理。你也可以说吉伦哈尔是在用情绪替代行动来表现这位女性，但男性导演们使用情绪时会明显不同。以及，这个意义上，我一直觉得毕格罗是生物性别为女的“男导演”，而不是“女性主义导演”。
在另一位母亲的身上看到自己过去的影子，连带回忆起曾经的困境与矛盾。电影释放出了勒达面对母亲的责任与向往的独立而彷徨下的负能量，也揭示了没有做好准备却开始抚养孩子的现实问题，暗处的女儿既是家中被冷落的孩子，亦是内心深处渴望爱却又害怕爱的自己。
給我的感覺很好，無可替代，很台灣，情懷萬歲，黑幫青春片，典範。給人的感覺太好了。也很傷感，青春，江湖，人生，在路上，失落，等等，將這些搞的曖昧無比，太喜歡！
本可以成为一部隐秘微凉又掷地有声的凯莉·雷查德电影。所有闪回都是多余的，应该通过破碎的当下揣测过去（哪怕是恶意的），而非目睹完整的过去反过来证实当下。科尔曼这个表演啊，拳打梅姨剑指科恩嫂了。
明知道是歧路，但还是会向往 @2018-09-28 11:18:54
——在二十出头的年纪里糊里糊涂地组建一个家庭，在年近五十的年纪里莫名其妙地结束一生，不荒诞，很自由。
不错的处女座，审美音乐品味好的人拍电影不会差
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