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.
有点儿老年版完美的世界的意思 老年的更平和更温暖 也更自恋 经得起诱惑 把的住情感 既有牛仔的骄傲 也有迟暮的姿态 虽然整体上是拉夸了点 但东木还是很迷人的 那种老牛仔的气息
西木老了，驯马那段明显是替身了，91岁的身子骨哪经得起马那么颠簸。剧情波澜不惊，细细品味回味无穷，生活哪有十全十美，找到自己最爱才是完美。所以最后他留在了墨西哥……谁在哭泣？那个被鸡打败了2次的人？
最后那两个怀疑东木车里藏du的警察，是不是从《骡子》片场穿越过来的？
优雅一生的的东木献上了一部温柔的童话故事。
挺好，挺好。东木让替身在马上替自己wild了一把，再让小朋友在旁边叫“猛男”。
童话版自传体电影
故事很简单，情节没有什么大的起伏，老头的迟暮和孩子的朝气刻画得都不错，虽然不够深入，但挺自然。对于这样节奏舒缓的片子，风光本应拍得更好些
比预期要好，东木的影片向来情感真挚，可总少不了一丝说教味，在车上与男孩的对话是一种自嘲，对于牛仔/硬汉精神开始进行思考，在精神上有了一丝突破，期待他今后的创作方向。
一个饱经风霜，被生活洗尽铅华，早已参透“硬汉”不过虚名，外表弱不禁风，内心坚如磐石；一个渴望温情，却过早熟悉冷漠，妄图伪装“硬汉”对抗世界，看似叛逆独立，实则脆弱无助。这样两个“表里不一”的家伙，被一只名副其实的“硬汉”牵线搭桥，并目（依）睹（靠）其在危机中力挽狂澜，如此设定无奈中透着几分戏谑与豁达。当二人一鸡的旅途行至终点，孤老寻得归宿，顽童走向成熟，观众也被传递了一波生活的真谛。剧本结构简单得就像一则小品，叙事上却依然有着老派的沉稳大气，节奏娓娓道来，丝毫不觉乏味。年迈的他在表达上愈发温和，也正呼应了片中的角色，对人生的回顾和总结与《骡子》异曲同工，难怪又要亲自出演。虽有力不从心，亦是甘之如饴。无论如何，能在银幕上看到老爷子的身影就是一种奢侈。牛仔离不开马背，东木永远属于片场。
孤立作为一部剧情片来看的话问题多多，平淡的剧情缓慢的节奏，以及正反派在大部分时间里都在无所事事，但放到冬木自导自演的作品体系里却能看到些许不同的东西，这一次的老头没有了以往外露的倔强，更多是一种对年龄和时代的妥协，每每露出的淡淡微笑也是在之前的作品里很难见到的，于是结尾看似突兀的反高潮的处理反而显得合情合理，此外有几幕夕阳与老人拍的确实很美，总之虽然远不是冬木最好作品那一序列的，但作为他这个年龄的作品，是不是也说明了老大爷内心的些许变化？
这片要表达的不是英雄迟暮，而是“英雄永不死，只是渐凋零”。一个男孩，总是要有人带他走一段路，教他成为一个男人。谨记：努力成为一个像东木这样的人！
一切就是那么回事儿
东木老爷子这情节开挂也太离谱了，小男孩的人设不合理，墨西哥风骚寡妇献身，警察点错相，连鸡都识得救场，改成晚年幸福生活比较贴切搞什么Cry Mecho
已经耄耋之年的东木的新作，不好说是老骥伏枥、宝刀未老什么的，而是我鲜少见的：温柔的东木。有着他曾经影片中最熟悉的元素，却放弃了不犀利不深入的悲伤故事，讲了一个平铺直叙，甚至没有什么高潮点，一老人，一少年，和一只鸡跨越美墨边境的故事，像是他的人生自传一样，像是对那个西部牛仔年代，还拿着枪的东木的致敬和怀念，转眼间已是拖着一身老骨头，给年轻一代讲他的所理解的世俗的老头了。他这次的转变，像是我最喜欢的小说家，写起了散文的感觉。
老爷子能不能不要再给自己安排感情线了，男主演技简直就是槽点，内个追杀者也可以说是最失败的了。。
天 这么滑铁卢的作品真的想不到啊 太失水准了
关于“自身”重现的一切，反复演绎的永远听不腻的故事的重述
天 这么滑铁卢的作品真的想不到啊 太失水准了
东木老爷子都九十一岁了，致敬！喜欢被偷的那辆红色越野车～
我相信，暮年的东方木之于电影，正如乔丹之于篮球一样，只是单纯地喜欢，不为名，不为利。
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