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.
个人7月日影最佳。三则文学感浓郁的短篇，放弃、争取、错落和扮演，充满巧合与错过，行云流水自然流畅地孕育诗气，又是如此让人蓦然一笑，所有的着力就是在努力争取之后完美的错落，这个曼妙的文本就像是再读贝克特《等待戈多》，就是偶然地起因，想象地缘结，然后毫无意义，人生的美好就是荒谬之中尤能产生连接。太奇妙了这个文本，似乎是当代存在主义式生活日常的最舒服展现。8.5
（太困啦，睡着了三次）210801/211225 3.5 按喜爱程度是213
第二部分完成度最高。第三部分概念还有潜力可发掘，目前呈现视听效果还是略简陋。第一部分糟透了，女主选角像是15岁的中学生看着就不对劲，不少对白动机奇怪、舞台剧感过强，创意也不怎么新鲜。
轻轻唤醒了我沉睡已久的观影热情，在百无聊赖地看过一个又一个烂俗的套路后，终于收获了新的惊喜。看第一个故事的时候还在想，又是洪尚秀那样的叙事，看完全片才发现跟洪尚秀的路线完全不一样。三部故事都打破了日常生活中人们小心翼翼维护着的距离感，干净的画面和淡淡的音乐所营造出恬静的氛围感，和大胆意外并且戏剧性强烈的故事融合起来竟有绝妙的观感。开着门的sex与将错就错的告白，最后两个故事太妙了，深深地击中了我。
大段的对白，不太一样的人设，精巧的剧情，缓慢的节奏，我都好喜欢。那个粗暴的（洪尚秀式）推拉镜头让我一下笑出来。（这是今年第一部在自己意愿下看的真人电影QAQ
第一个故事渣女演的挺好的，就是太娃娃脸了，跟另外两个成年人显得很违和。第二个故事教授正经的说咸话，也是有一番魅力。第三个故事是有故事的两个女人，陪着对方演戏释怀真的挺有爱。
这部电影可以证明，滨口龙介就是当代日本侯麦（他不喜欢也没辙）。
三个短片都喜欢，好像每个女主都有教授说的那种，在情感和欲望被压抑的社会中“可以不受常识的束缚而思考和行动”的能力。
#BJIFF21#其实蛮贾木许的啊，这几个故事大概比洪尚秀尴尬十倍吧……尴尬美学传承人了可以说……喜欢程度3>2>1
电影看完就比较懵，感觉没看懂，里面太多对话，每个人都一直在说话，可能需要特别全神贯注才能感受到这个电影的意义吧？我觉得3个故事都很奇葩，从第一个开始，每个故事里都有个精神状态似乎不太正常的人。当然了，也可能是太深刻了，我太浅薄，确实看不懂吧。
：没有魔法、事与愿违的社死、宁可与陌生人互诉衷肠却再也想不起心底那束白月光
HKIFF2021@香港文化中心 台词质量绝了。
“但我们是通过谈话在抚摸着彼此。”奇妙的维度，但是又很生活。8分。
心灵的隐秘的角落，舒缓但赤诚地呈现，意料之外的反转，最后回归于人性的共情和温柔，多个瞬间直戳心窝。这三个充满质感的故事好像是情感版的《黑镜》，讲的都是有关人性褶皱的部分，看似偶然，或源于想象，却无比真实。滨口龙介的风格越来越迷人了。
202203竟然最喜欢第三个故事，我们女性到底是谁？到底要什么？真的要不停地追问。非常侯麦。
虽然现在还只是7月，但是我的2021年度最佳已经确定就是它了！第一个故事：那个快速变焦转场真的太绝太绝；第二个故事：我无法想象一段对话居然能色情到这般地步，Segawa误打成Sagawa，哈哈哈哈哈哈；第三个故事：果然潘多拉的宝盒中最终只剩下了希望（Nozomi）
技法：2＞1＞3；观感：3＞1＞2。还是怀疑滨口龙介是不是被过誉了……
不喜欢日系絮絮叨叨却没有剧情的对白戏，它更像是三出台上戏剧。这就是人的空想社交吧——生活百无聊赖的人写得出小说吗。
以偶然为启，牵引出日常和爱的想象，唯一值得怀疑的是，为何不能不乘着“戏剧性”就飞翔呢？
三个故事都很精彩。偶然的发生，却是 相通的情感。
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