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.
四星半。很惊人，竟然在这样一部看似过年全家欢的动画电影里看到那么多令中年人心有戚戚的人生话题。水与大海之辨是近两年缠绕我最深的泥淖，在庸碌而无法摆脱的生活中默默忍受，总希望有一个神迹般的拐点出现，从此如池水入沧海。其实神迹无处不在。Spark不是人被先天赋予的终极意义，那样生命本身就沦为了一个工具，它是在这美好又糟糕的世界中体会到“活着真好”的那一刻，也许来源自音乐，也许是一块美味的披萨，也许是秋日阳光透过梧桐叶照在脸上的一瞬，翅果如天使般飞向你。“追寻本身也是一种盲视”，打开对生活的感官吧。视觉效果非常舒适，迪士尼和皮克斯的技术当然值得信赖，心灵之境的触感应该很不错，但还是太喜欢纽约秋日街道，光影的处理值得一看再看。
皮克斯的动画，依旧温暖人心。我们要找的不是目标，不是意义，只是热爱。不过整体完成度和画面比寻梦环游记差了点，后半段基本猜得到剧情，没有惊喜。
可是你们都不知道，真的有人活着毫无意义、什么都做不好啊，浪费地球的资源啊（比如说我），感觉每天在一个假的身体和假的人格里假装。20200812去英国的飞机上重看，治愈了我的焦虑。人生是一个旅程，enjoy every experience and every moment! Improvise, live it all!
哈哈反爆裂鼓手，支持我们的不是挚爱，而是生活本身。不过里面Terry抓人那段简直就是红辣椒再现
我喜欢那个躺在下水道感受风的镜头，看着领带飘起，上面是天空。
可能是因为对迪士尼(皮克斯)的套路“免疫”了，观感中规中矩，甚至有些强说教的聒噪(谨慎)。// 有时大环境真的潜移默化影响人的心境，过去的2020年整个人类经历了太多关乎生死的劫难起伏，再分散到具体的个人，很多情感的波动阈值几乎趋于无限大，已很难有可以轻易触碰心灵的抚慰了。
比起追求big goal, 我更想活好每一个minute啊。普通人生也很值得。
之前好评看到太多了期待有点过高，实际看下来觉得还行吧....不过是和阿叉第一次看电影！也是今年的第一场电影，所以五分五分五分
在这个时节看一部这样的电影，皮克斯永远技高一筹。
真正的spark无需特别寻找，它会在你独自沉浸享受的某一时刻就已经存在，而我们只需要好好享受每一个沉浸时刻。全片实践了把自己(人)作为目的，但还是套路太满，希望把鸡汤做的再高级一些，片里这个程度我自己日常就能获得。说到底，人看电影一部分还是希望得到超过自己经验的感受。
它能给一部分人带来希望，也让一部分人看清了绝望
噢对了，官方设定中，22号投胎到了印度。
其实也是关于“生命本质”或“生活本质”的鸡汤，但灵魂的设定、故事的逻辑、动画的呈现，都比较出色。不管是孩子还是成人，喝下这碗鸡汤，都有益无害。
想象力奇绝，万万没想到可以这样表现灵魂、性格、火花、忘我、迷失。爵士乐，听得很开心～
第一感觉更喜欢寻梦环游记的和更喜欢心灵奇旅的会是两种人。
和我的人生态度不谋而合，以至于觉得并没有什么惊喜。活在此刻，carpe diem.
就是这样，有些人出生就懂的道理，有些人却活了半辈子再死过一次之后才能明白！
25.12.2020 | @ Disney+ | 依旧很好啊，但也许因为太喜欢Inside Out的缘故觉得这部没前作更有共鸣。
“我从未遇到我想要的生活。你的生活是可悲的，你却努力想要恢复它。我想明白为什么。”
冷不防被摸了摸头。皮克斯，我的人生抛光器。
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