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.
3.5 看到最后：原来是爱情 又过了五秒：好家伙 的确是鸽子呢（想看原作小说
因为未接触过，所以觉得很新奇。遇车路过那段完全不需要，回家之后吃点东西洗个澡就可以end了，或者结尾再加段重遇谈几句和女主的特写就cut了吧，给点留白就行。(三星半)
就当什么都没发生过吧 如果非要打分的话 那就给个负无限分 因为对于看了一辈子黑道家族的我来说 这部片对我造成了跨越维度的冒犯和伤害
一星给风光，一星给伤心的往事。其实故事很简单，不需要这么长的篇幅
6分。关键问题在于没有DRAMA，又打动不了人心。如果主角因为害死孩子而从而圣母心的内容能放在开头可能会更好一些。现在这种倒叙的手法使得观众很难共情为啥女主要拼了命去救一个陌生人，还是在这个陌生人不断自我作死的情况下。Naomi Watts的素颜有点没法看。。。
全部带着对黑道家族的情怀看完，所以Tony全靠这个叔叔影响。
冲着藤原龙也看的这部悬疑，但演绎得有些故弄玄虚了，书中剧情与书外剧情应该有更加鲜明的区分，才能体现出原著的引人之处。原著主要是利用假亦真时真亦假的特点，但片子书内书外初始就用的都是藤原龙也，也就失去了这种感觉，更像个倒序时空蒙太奇的电影了。这个锅导演得背。还有就是黑帮也没个黑帮样，整体风格缺乏黑色氛围带来的紧张感，其实悬疑也必然要伴随着解开迷雾的压迫感，只有这种迷雾里的冰冷和迷雾外的炙热相结合，才能创造出炸裂的优质悬疑片。
昔日的金刚女郎接片越来越差，她在这部的表现，从一开始脱掉外套，显露脊背力量，实际上是给运动品牌做广告，再后来的裸露镜头更叫人不知所以…
看前有多期待 看后就有多失望 完全不知道咋干什么
搞的神神秘秘的，小说家写的故事似乎是真实，但反转过来，就那么一件小破事
没看过神剧，作为前传整个电影呈现得支离破碎，Tony和叔叔的关系很松散，完全看不出叔叔对他的影响在哪里，叔叔除了杀了父亲和情人也看不出做了什么值得崇拜的事，故事线不明显，东一榔头西一棒子，人物多叙事琐碎。
Naomi遭這個罪幹嘛…還貢獻了一個毫無意義的全裸
毫無驚喜平平無奇的劇作，勝在景色優美，演技尚有說服力。大自然本身的聲音足夠震撼，而少有的配樂(唱段)也能起到畫龍點睛的效果。娜奧美是怎能做到每到一個年齡段都能修煉到另一種美麗的？
不意外，藤原又被捲入奇怪的事件了。劇情挺平淡的，不覺得怎麼好看，還是默默看完了
格局拍的小了点，要是找个好导演，凭着娜奥米的演技，可以勾一勾小金人的边的
总是习惯仰望那些英雄式的个性与张扬，即便知道最后他们躲不过阴暗角落里飞来的刺刀。
7years later
用小说来制造悬疑，真真假假。最后用“鸠”来串联，构思还可以就是节奏实在慢。
傻X豆瓣，居然缺了两个女角色，Gabriella Piazza和Lesli Magherita演的
假小说变成真故事，日本的刺杀小说家？开头还有点意思，后面有点不在状态，瞎了好创意。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
