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.
一部古典而强有力的影视作品，它在保证了影视化改编的观赏性的同时也没有完全失去作为一部文学巨著的顽强的生命力，很有欧洲古典主义的气质
“在野心勃勃的世界里，吕西安算什么呢？一个为了追逐享乐的孩子，为这些输掉了一切，飞蛾扑火一般，做了环境的奴隶”。小说原著体量太大了，两个小时还是很匆忙，解说太多了，没有靠镜头把吕西安一步步走入良知泯灭的过程刻画的很好，在邪恶自成一体疯狂狂奔的时代，可惜他没有作恶的绝决到底的能力，也没有坚持自己信仰的能力，最后骑墙难下。有一个镜头演得好好，当他得知书籍和新闻的销量全靠贵族和商人的御用文人以及见人咬人的流氓文人统治的时候，他疑惑不解地问了一句：“那文学呢？” 天真从那一刻之后就不复存在了，黑白颠倒，是是非非都不重要，重要的是钱，毕竟，在巴黎，连永恒的安眠都需要的是钱。19世纪的小说拍的过来都挺好看的。
“我终于不再期待，开始生活。”
都给我去看！！太好看了我淦必须的去看家人们推荐啊
眼见他起高楼，眼见他宴宾客，眼见他楼塌了。
巴黎是流动的盛宴 这部电影就是盛宴的终末 揭示了浮华下的虚伪与残酷 他的品质，梦想，本性以及自我随着时间一起幻灭 整个地球就是一个牢笼 巴黎或许是枷锁最繁琐也最缥缈的一座
多少个这样的心灵，
今年真的是看了太多better stay as fiction的电影了。
虚假的新闻与评论，丑恶的嘴脸与现实，必然导致最终的理想幻灭。
這拍得也太依賴畫外音了。男主演老是歪著嘴笑看著不太聰明。
一则小镇青年迎合上流、却终不得入的寓言。关系的本质是交换，不要自己加戏。
时代变迁得快，年纪轻轻所经历之处都刻骨铭心，音乐华丽。
名声决定一切的时代可不就得各种装嘛，可惜最终也没靠女人上位。
恺撒奖难道是看在巴尔扎克的面子上哪？虽然变小了巴黎的浮华虚伪勾心斗角，但是故事本身虽然抽离了吕西安的主线然而还是缺乏小说的故事魅力。旁白音也太多了
复辟时期的巴黎这个宏大的历史画卷表现得非常迷人：剧院、报纸、出版人、富商、贵族、王室之间的各种勾当，寥寥几个场景就展现地一清二楚。对话非常辛辣（应该是巴尔扎克的功劳）让人印象深刻。此外导演应该是有意加了一些指射当下的元素吸引观众。
媒体黑历史大起底，鸭子说这锅我不背。敬巴黎，敬巴尔扎克。可怕的，肮脏的，迷醉的，黑暗的，悸动的，暗流涌动的巴黎与十九世纪！
毕竟是名著，人物、剧情、场面都要丰满许多。
画面美，精致，演员很有特色。就听懂一半吧，好歹大概看懂了。Louise和Coralie对Lucien的爱情都很纯粹，但他还是悲剧了。没太懂为啥他要坚持冠母亲的姓，可能我漏听了关键信息，有缘会找原著来看。
至少，影片给了一种很多人一生都无法体验的梦幻巴黎的感觉。
扎实的名著电影，布景服化道一看就很贵很还原，巴尔扎克的小说毕竟戏剧性极高，看起来毫不无聊；是文学梦的幻灭，爱情的幻灭，也是妄图实现阶级跃层的幻灭，时至今日，类似的故事仍然不断上演，至少男主功成名就过，大多人被淹没在大城市的纸醉金迷里，水花都不曾溅起；内森居然是多兰演的！看演员表才发现，卷发单薄帅哥都免不了发腮嘛难道，多兰你之前可是比本片男主帅的多啊。
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