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.
年内最佳！
人性之光的故事，中国拍，我还算勉强接受，美国拍，我真的要喷火了。还有那个死者儿子那条线，简直是有病啊，你老婆跟你弟弟干了，就要杀人家妹妹，这是哪个外太空的三观。太多逻辑都没有人性犹豫，挺牵强的，难以投入
好棒！题材和演技都非常好。大家都有自己的桎梏，只有和自己和解，才能安心地活下去。
虽然叙事效率不高，支线也支离破碎，但桑德拉·布洛克的表现却无可挑剔，最后一幕的情感力量十分强大。三星。
剧情经不住过多推敲，想来也没什么不好的，只是这个时代这种故事，厌倦了吧。
意外的好看！不愧是女导演拍摄的作品。全片冷静克制，所以爆发是尤其撕心裂肺。桑德拉布洛克嘶吼这“She was just five yars old”!为了妹妹，她选择了牺牲自己，永久背负上cop killer的罪名。桑姐值得一座奥斯卡的肯定！
理应可以处理得更好的故事，闪回，冲突与最终和解都处理得张力不够。对于生活如何重新开始如何继续向前，只是提出些非常浅层的表达。确实都为桑德拉的表演服务了，看似简单的丧其实表演层次感还是很强的，但还是被故事卸掉了不少劲儿，比起《美好的世界》后劲差很多。
不知何谓的电影 与导演第一部电影相差甚远 搭了一个好莱坞最经典的戏台子 却摆着一副最严肃的脸说事 没有哪一个人物是完整的 甚至桑姐都是拧着一股劲在表演 直到她摔东西骂脏话发疯开始电影也开始了发疯 想想估计这就是导演请指教最喜欢的
1. Sandra Bullock最近和Don’t Look Up里的Cate Blanchette一样，肉毒杆菌打过头了；2. Emily被kidnap，Ruth为什么不直接告诉Steve他绑架错了人？3.为什么要顶替5岁的妹妹去坐牢？5岁啊，什么惩罚都不会有，最多就是去看心理医生吧（有人可能会说，会被从Ruth身边带走，要送去寄养家庭，可是Ruth如果顶替她去坐牢了，那不也是被送去寄养家庭了吗？）4.Emily被绑住了手腕，可以轻松地撕下嘴上的duck tape啊！
桑德拉布洛克的表演无可挑剔，甚至比今届入围奥斯卡影后的多数人演的更好，真相揭开的时候，阴差阳错之下Ruth为妹妹付出的一生的代价让人心疼。片子探讨了有犯罪前科，尤其是杀人案底（何况是杀警察）的刑满释放人员在底层顶着社会刻板印象的标签寸步难行的生活困境，以及附着在其上的世态炎凉。红脖、白左再到少数族裔，不同的阶层对待底层投射着各自的成见，但是讽刺的是，假若女主并非被洗白的那样无辜，他们的成见难道不也是一种自我保护或是追求结果正义的方式吗？只能说，在美国这样族群对立日益激化的现实之下，人们为了安全，都会越发极端和敏感，不是局中人，并不能简单地说是对是错。
Sandra 无懈可击的表现，把人与人的情感发挥到极致，感人至深却不催人泪下，不过度煽情，理性的结局让你沉默不语。09年剧集改编的：https://movie.douban.com/subject/3286084/。
Sandra bullock nice!
桑德拉布洛克过了四十岁简直没法看，像僵尸一样。
电影很朴实，平静中隐约有种神秘力量，两个小时的时间，竟然在毫无波澜的剧情中不知不觉度过了，没有想看的兴奋点，到最后也没有大起大落。
桑德拉演技炸裂，单凭那张脸就足够表明过往一切的心酸和凄楚。
刑满释放的杀人犯真的只值得人们贬低鄙视吗？不管何时，欺凌别人的人都是丑恶的。
看完觉得不错 细想又有种不知道电影想表达什么的感觉
就像万箭穿心一般扎心
罪犯的身份、固化的阶层、永生无法打破的“原罪”。她背负罪恶换取妹妹的未来，在夹缝中残喘存活，只为了心中的爱！女主演技炸裂，每个眼神都是戏，这才叫演技！结尾好评，此时无声胜有声！
女主可以拿奥斯卡了。剧情虽然有点为对而对，但她的演技的确是无可指责
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