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.
3.5 很多細節都蠻精準的，真的是很有天分。攝影加分太多，每場戲的燈光細節都布置得很不錯。
生长于斯的故乡风物，被重洋彼岸置换；血肉纠葛的家庭情感，被疏离叛逆冻僵。暖心的瞬间不过是疼痛间歇的休克期，两种文化的夹缝里尽是他乡之客。控制与逃避，倾诉与恐惧，说到底还是孤独，还有事与愿违的不甘与奢望。温吞如水，遗憾怅惘，安不下欲望，到不了远方。
高开低走。。。后半真的看得人压力很大，冲突来得太突然又和解得太突然。。
在电影里居然看到了自己，勾起了好多小时候的回忆，升学考试，父母吵架，朋友离开，同学嘲笑，把生活的希望寄托在虚无，每一次的失落与难过都会随着时间退却又回来，说不清道不明的生活，或许就像是这部电影，并没有一个正确的答案，跟电影里爸爸说的一样，逃避或许有用……
远超预期的观影体验，不是技法的特别，就是一个个细腻触人的点让你不得不接受这个电影:非典与新冠，妈妈的病，病后的悲观消极，逃避与理想混为一谈，在很多次失声后掏耳时的交谈，爸爸笨拙的爱，家长会上妈妈的反击…太多太多了。
热锅上的家庭，揭示出从大环境到小家庭的系统兼容问题，启发疗愈，建议阖家观看，各得其所。
真的蛮喜欢林嘉欣的 父亲的角色有点弱 母女关系的部分蛮好的
这个时间段看这个真的窒息，尤其是几段吵架戏。女孩自身面对的文化冲突基本没有展开。
这是一部青春片。电影不论是从片名来看，还是从两个女孩在美/台、爸爸在台/陆两地游移的人物设计来看，都让人期待能从中看到作者关于台湾社会代际间文化归属感与认同感的演变和差异的探讨，但可惜的是，这部片子还是将其简单处理成了家庭内部冲突，也将身份认同的焦虑处理成了中产家庭面对阶级跌落危机的焦虑。在这一部分，其实《爸妈不在家》《小伟》《瀑布》处理得更好。尤其可与《小伟》进行对照，后者没那么大野心，也把那份焦虑表现得更加透彻，而这部电影丢了很多包袱，最后不了了之。林嘉欣怎么那么美啊，总带着一份清透的少女感，所以看她演妈妈还是有点违和。
故事和立意都太陈旧了。美国梦的破碎杨德昌1985年的《青梅竹马》就已经说尽了。凑疫情也十分牵强，没带来什么思考。
从非典到新冠，这19年间好像什么都没变又好像什么都变了🚬
3.5。但是，有一点想说的是，这个年纪孩子的叛逆，很多时候，没这么“冠冕堂皇”的理由。（虽然并不能否认电影这样表达是没问题的）
这是一部青春片。电影不论是从片名来看，还是从两个女孩在美/台、爸爸在台/陆两地游移的人物设计来看，都让人期待能从中看到作者关于台湾社会代际间文化归属感与认同感的演变和差异的探讨，但可惜的是，这部片子还是将其简单处理成了家庭内部冲突，也将身份认同的焦虑处理成了中产家庭面对阶级跌落危机的焦虑。在这一部分，其实《爸妈不在家》《小伟》《瀑布》处理得更好。尤其可与《小伟》进行对照，后者没那么大野心，也把那份焦虑表现得更加透彻，而这部电影丢了很多包袱，最后不了了之。林嘉欣怎么那么美啊，总带着一份清透的少女感，所以看她演妈妈还是有点违和。
那如果這已經是她的最好了呢？
很棒，真的在某個侷限的地方中完成的很好的作品。每個部門都交出非常漂亮的成績單。觸動少女成長的幾個瞬間固然動人，可是最後卻似是未完成一個結尾，問題可能出在她沒分清楚是講家庭還是講少女成長（當然理解是都想要講，但問題是真正最核心的是哪一個）。by the way 三個主演都極好，但最令我深刻還是林嘉欣，去醫院坐著被護士弄化療那一顆鏡頭，不過分演繹而是給出了真正的靈光，就是影后級別的演出。
还不错，比较不错的现实题材，最后父亲打女儿维护妈妈那场戏不错
非典时期，我跟剧中女孩儿差不多的年纪。鸡毛蒜皮，父母子女，太真实了。林嘉欣距《暗色天堂》演技又进了一步
7.5。居然讲了个快二十年前的故事，那时非典给我留下的印象，还历历在目。因为母亲需要回台做手术，在美国生活多年的姐妹回到了台湾。姐妹俩不仅要面对生活和文化的差异带来的改变，更要面对可能失去母亲的恐惧。特别是姐姐，她似乎更加不满和不安，她情感更加细腻，反抗也更加激烈。观众作为旁观者，竟然可以理解每一个家庭成员的反应，哪怕他们言辞激烈，会伤害彼此。可惜，当观众的身份是家庭成员时，我们又有无法理解和体谅对方。
三星半｜癌症妈妈、大雁爸爸、台英混讲的美国女孩、白马意象、非典病毒、最终敞开的门…不够完美，但部分细节还是足以让人掉泪。
有几段比描写当下疫情的《瀑布》更加贴近现实，很喜欢这种描写家庭的现实主义作品，各种情绪写得挺好，女性视角非常细腻，但是一些铺垫没有处理完，剧本的小小遗憾。
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