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.
选择了一种最保守也是最安全的拍法，但因为传主本身经历的传奇性，所以拍得并不沉闷，内在的线索脉络也是很清晰的——舞台上的梅艳芳光鲜亮丽，但舞台下的她却因为各种原因无法享受一名女性理应享有的爱情家庭等等，但她实现了这种对小愿望的超越，通过演艺与公益事业将自己塑造成为香港的女儿，然后在一场轰轰烈烈的演出中光彩落幕。这个时间点拍梅的传记其实是一语双关的，建制一方与自由一方均可以找到支撑己方的解读点。
将五集导演剪辑版看完也将梅艳芳一生看完说实话作为传记片这部做很不出色。但着眼梅姐感情事业亲情友情经历来说如此处理也是可取的。毕竟梅姐此生大起大落太多，演员们演绎是对梅姐敬仰与真实录像交相呼应让人动容03年我们失去了两位巨星如今只能在电影中回忆
我草，我哭的稀里哗啦。看到她姐姐去世还在憋着，看到张国荣去世那段就绷不住了，联想到最近草东鼓手也去世了（用瑞克姥爷的话，为什么如此有才华的人却早逝）；到非典那段又绷不住了，疫情笼罩下的我们又何尝不需要打气？（而不是互相指责）
张国荣的演员真的太出戏了，甚至觉得有点像黄宗泽……但是他的故事线出来的时候竟然开始流泪，不知道为啥。梅艳芳的一生，很多我不知道的事，那个年代做明星也不是容易的事。
意料之中哭着看完，也希望看完电影的人，无论是不是梅姐的粉丝，走出电影院后都能去看看她留存下来的一场场演唱会视频，去音乐平台听听她的歌曲，去看看她参演过的影视作品，希望会有更多的人爱她。
人生短暂，想做就去做，想见的人就去见。
22'形象设计古天乐登场
抛开本人来讲，作为一个路人 感觉影片流于表面没有真正在意人物的内心变化，整体的感觉就像按照时间线铺设这种冲突的流水账，挖掘的还不够，而且节奏有大问题感觉导演没有完全知道观众想要看的和自己到底想要表达的，出门左拐学习一下《波西米亚狂想曲》的调度和掌控力，对于那个时代的还原还是有点浮
剧集版。传记片演员完全不像也可以接受，可是从20岁到40岁一点变化也没有也太假了吧。既然是流水账，就尊重历史照实拍，如果是戏说历史，那就写一个好故事。整整五集啊，梅艳芳的特点、价值，历史意义，毫无体现！王丹妮演的就像一个弱智一样！！！这真的不是在黑梅艳芳吗？
1105提前場+映後見面會。
拍的太苦了，应该压缩苦情戏份，更多展示阿姐芳华绝代的一面。
疫情应景
我没太听过梅艳芳的歌，对她的事迹了解亦不算多。虽然这部电影被她的乐迷批评为流水账，但对我而言却是不错的科普。即便个子较梅姐高很多，但我仍然觉得王丹妮的这个角色是成立的，有英气撑着。电影中，几处梅姐本人镜头的闪回做得很好，音乐当然是重要的线索，最后章节里的《女人花》和《夕阳之歌》的旋律一出来，我的眼泪还是来了。豪气干云的侠女落寞收稍，的确让人唏嘘。国产电影能用心去拍传记不容易，给四星。
他们唱着夕阳之歌渐次远去，香港，当年我在天星小轮上遥望赞叹的那颗东方之珠，渐次黯淡……太平山下，风继续吹（评论的是225分钟导演剪辑版，作为只闻梅姑其名，毫不了解其生平的路人，被这位香港的女儿感动了，愿她在遥远的星空继续璀璨）
我哭了两次，一次是切换成真人梅姐的第一个镜头出来时。流了眼泪。第二次就是4月1日。简直控制不了的哭。但感觉那都是真人影像带给我的。电影的本身平淡且琐碎。可能很多所谓传记片为求真实都这么拍。但那是天后啊。这么传奇的一生，拍成一个港女励志片真的好么？我也预料十足女主不能演出梅艳芳十分之一。但让我更想不到是哥哥的演员更让我出戏。这俩在一起我完全想不到是梅姑和荣少。三星实在是情怀。
慢歌是唱唏嘘 快歌是唱反叛 人生如同一张专辑，时而叛逆，时而停下来唏嘘
这不是梅艳芳，我只能从杨千嬅的眼睛中看见梅艳芳。
听着梅艳芳、张国荣的歌走过青春的人，对这部电影有着不一般的情怀。
画骨不成只得描皮。光影胭脂粉，衣衫珠宝件，明明在往实里造，实际却是把梅艳芳往虚里推。既然如今的香港与梅艳芳其人以及她所代表、所希冀的都互斥，那梁乐民就几笔带过圆梦路，剩下全部都给观众梦醒时分。香江搭不起空中楼阁，香港梦散后，不知何处去的城市和人再次唱响《夕阳之歌》，唱唏嘘，唱过往，唱得银幕下的我哭得一塌糊涂。
看得出很难拍，也看得出编导尽力了。这已不是属于梅姐的时代，甚至不是能够好好讲述她一生风风雨雨的时代。Anyway，最控制不住落泪，还是女人花和夕阳之歌响起的时候……
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