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.
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是一部优秀的女权电影，但不是一部好看的商业电影
雷老爷随随便便回归他最擅长的题材，就做得比今年那堆奥斯卡提名的都要好，真是搞笑。
三段之间的差距非常精妙，叙事推进非常高效，历史还原非常细致，决斗场面非常精彩。雷老牛逼！
太多细节和线索值得品，每个人物都被多角度立体透视，试问自己你的关注点是落在真相上？还是决斗输赢上？
这个电影告诉我们，根本就不存在什么“客观”，有三种角度就有三种表述。另外中世纪女性跨越时空般拥有现代女性独立意识，且非常坚定，如此设定的古装片总让人觉得出戏。
男人的尊严真tm珍贵啊，大猪蹄子，一堆大猪蹄子……
三个章节从三个主人公的不同视角解构了这场关于权力、荣誉的争夺战，历史由胜者和男性书写（history、his-story），被“强行补充上”的第三章女性视角 在如今这个cancel文化盛行、性别冲突对立问题格外敏感，依旧以男性为中心的父权体系社会 有着更加复杂的时代含义。
一个男人粗鲁野蛮，另一个男人自我催眠
这几天慢慢回味女主人公视角，那种向受到侵犯之后向男权社会发起对峙和不给自己留退路的悲壮呐喊，真的和Ridley Scott之前的末路狂花如出一辙。剧本编排让故事简单易懂，重点在于第三部分的narrative/the truth对看完前两个版本“his”tory的观众造成的冲击。性侵是一个沉重且压抑的话题，但反而是伴随着Margerite稍微明丽一些的色彩和她不断坚毅又屈辱地重申I speak the truth才对冲了些许男性掌权之下的窒息和荒谬。最后我求亚当司机真的不能再接这种剧本，再接家暴渣男的形象就要深入人心了😭
@MOViE MOViE Cityplaza 布景和服化道本片应该是本片最大的优点。把三个人对同一件事情的描述分别拍出来的拍摄手法看似有点想法，但是这种手法也许适合用来拍分集、总时长较长的电视剧，而不适合总时长相对较短的电影，观众会短时间内看到同一段镜头反反复复地出现，不利于观感。前面一个半小时的剧情和台词没有好好打磨，缺乏时代感…电影的主菜只集中在后面约45分钟左右的时长里面，台词和片段中信息量还是很大的。
同一事件下不同视角的台词细微差别十分值得玩味。老雷巧妙地用一场中世纪最后决斗，谱写出一首女性主义哀歌。A child needs his mother, more than a mother needs to be right.
三个人物三个视点的内容，但并非POV式。虽然在第三章开篇导演有意突出了真相二字，可要客观来看，还得综合三个篇章的细节才能更全面的理解人物性格及行为动机，也为女主角所处那个时代的境遇多了贴切之感。
维权还是猎巫都是靠女主的起心动念，那么这事走向了反面。整个故事女主道德光环就在于雷得利斯科特强行加入的预设。
2021.12.02 父亲的交换筹码 丈夫的泄欲工具 风流男的高级猎物 丈夫赢得荣光与民意 她什么都没有 #女性苦难
文戏的高潮是对玛格丽特的法庭判决，其令人窒息和揪心程度，甚至比卡鲁日、勒格里那场生死决斗的武戏，还胜一筹。雷老爷永远值得期待，全片2/3乃至4/5的铺垫，最后发现都是值得的！
妙龄少女嫁给二婚老男人，就够无语了。丈夫和强奸犯一样都让人无语，结婚了就是👏为了传宗接代，搞个决斗整的还所有人为他欢呼，却从没有人关注过受伤的jodie！女性的境遇现在好一点了吗，我还是持悲观态度。
2021.12.26 以为是一部A男B男O男的电影，最后出乎意料地来了个女性主义转折。达萌和大本再度合作剧本，却是为她人作嫁衣裳，又给演了反派当陪衬送佛到西，他们值得一个大奖。
三段论不在于完整还原“真相”，而更多的是在试图揭开完整的人类主观视角，其实人类历史上的绝大多数真相都是这样的“真相”吧
两个男人各有各的智障（去年看完忘记标记了……）
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