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.
相比于罗马，我更喜欢这部，罗马对于我来说太遥远了，根本共情不上去，我所拥有的童年更像是贝尔法斯特，爱我的亲人和朝夕相处的邻居，最后一次搬家结束了整个童年。或许电影中很多东西比较俗，但正是这种俗使我感到亲切，以及创作者对童年与故乡的纯粹怀念。
黑白格调，有历史感的同时不失唯美，儿童视角，动乱冲突依然看到儿时的快乐和对故乡的留恋。似乎也就能想到这些，还有就是英式英语吧（大概）。7/10分
和《罗马》相反，布拉纳是以一种温情的目光回望历史，回望那个安土重迁的故乡，在感伤之外裹一层幽默的糖衣，试图去治愈一切。异时空的彩色画面，出跳的西部片音乐，也给这个黑白故事附上一层反讽调子，可惜这些都是从外部去带节奏，和人物本身的关系不大，那些正面呈现的冲突打斗，华而不实的运镜，也是商业片拍多了的毛病。丹奇贡献了两个泪点，去不了的香格里拉，不要回头望的瞩望，两场戏都是不对称对话，将遗憾keep to herself，这才是含蓄的力量。
同时能明显感受到喜欢与不喜欢这电影的地方，故事很走心，这个原创故事很棒，是一本优秀的剧本使然。然而又能感到有目的性地过分炫技，太满当变得溢价。或是剧情转折快，有些东西立体了，有些又有点赶脚。但对于奥斯卡来说技巧多未必是坏事…（7.5分）
2.5 宗教，故土，诙谐，哲理，爱与分离，以这种近PPT方式呈现，浪费情感，削弱共鸣。
C. 想要展现孩子眼中童年滤镜下的世界，却只会像赶场一样堆砌技巧，直到糖衣厚到消灭了所有质感。炫技炫得像一部韦斯·安德森的半成品，又无法做到人家的极致和精美，最后只能是不上不下割裂紊乱又时刻招摇到惹人烦的空壳。
年度观影 No.507
3.5星。很《罗马》，但绝对逊于《罗马》。小孩很可爱，以至于整部影片都随着小孩的视角可爱起来了。
一部包装很漂亮的电影，至于里面没，真就一般般。
设计的太刻意了，冲淡了宗教冲突下小人物的那种无力感，音乐满的溢出来
看了眼导演就明白为什么会私人到自我陶醉的程度。
好多多余的镜头就像好多多余的台词一样
一部包装很漂亮的电影，何必刻意去展示动荡年代，感觉拍童年快乐看电影唱歌跳舞的部分自然的多。
蹩脚的游子怀乡，拍个情怀罢了，所谓乡愁，真看不到。
其实对于有的人来说 幸福就是阳光 音乐 舞蹈和啤酒 本来就不需要什么“深刻” 那又何必煞有介事的加上这么多形式外壳呢？从开片的第一场暴动炸车开始其实在影像上用黑白就大可不必 而所有的情绪段落都来升格加大段配乐真的充分暴露导演对电影艺术的“粗通皮毛” 唯一可称道的是演员出身的导演对几名老演员的镜头表现尚对得起演员出身 但动辄怼脸的特写也同样令人出戏 学习了几部经典影片就不列举了 拿它跟《罗马》比真的有惹到我
别的不说，有些影调有种迫冲的感觉，真不错。话说我也差不多是这样异地夫妻环境成长的唉～
彩色到黑白的过度很好；开头展现冲突时环绕升格后一声爆炸进入现实。
主要打动我的是背井离乡前的哀愁和不舍，我也经历过离开从小熟悉的街区来到一个陌生的地方生活，担心从小一起长大的好友不再联系，担心自己会被这个新地方排斥，担心远离自己家中和蔼可亲的长辈，结果一一应验了，尤其是和长辈一起的点点滴滴实在是让人动容，我相信很多人和我一样都有和爷爷奶奶外公外婆一起度过日常的温馨时光，在父母的疾言厉色下，他们才是幼小的我心中真正的避风港
三星半，对历史背景过于陌生，很难带入情感。刻意的配乐和镜头让人看不清本属于电影的纯粹和自然。有些用力过猛的电影，不是不好只是不够好。
从小男孩buddy的视角演绎贝尔法斯特那段动荡的岁月，太过甜美和文艺范，真有点“少年不识愁滋味，为赋新词强说愁”。
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