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.
她每天下午三点会来 不管是无主之作还是法比安 汤姆希林总给我意想不到但是又在意料之中的意外
很久没有看过这么长的电影了，琐碎的生活，好看。
Just generally a really good movie if you like independent cinema.
1942年纳粹德国在万湖一栋别墅里，召开了一次会议，决定了犹太人总体解决方案。此部电影即精确地还原了此次会议的过程。如果对那段历史熟悉，且对纳粹高官有基本了解，此片还是非常精彩的，从中能看到纳粹们相互间的唇枪舌剑与勾心斗角，还能一窥纳粹高层的决策过程。万湖会在二战史中亦算一次重要会议，此会之后犹太人的命运更加悲惨，并大规模被灭绝。阿伦特所写的艾希曼，在此片中亦有出现，他在一众高官中只是一个小人物，不过其如机器一般的快速、准确、不带感情，给人留下深刻印象。
2022-02-05
（真的好喜歡德國片啊）我們該如何度過這一生，大雨來臨之前，Fabian和舊世界一併下沉。會想到贖罪裡等待愛人的Cecilia。
在一个泥沙俱下的世界里依然善良的法比安，在罪恶蔓延前焚于烈火的薄薄的一生
虚无代替了存在，惧怕现在和未来
系统性的恶，往往会让人忘掉所有人都是个体的人。那些最基层的执行机器，会有一刻感受到良心的刺痛么？不知为何我总是联想到这个春天的上海。
饱满的拍摄，坚实的构成。“命悬一线”的，青年人们的理想生活和信念被丑恶的政治斗争，战争冲垮、被猝不及防的现实意外打断，追逐理想国度的人们最终只能无力地死于自己的理想，永远到不了的幸福未来QAQ
二战前夕动荡不安的德国，迷惘的青年，混乱的情感与未来，令人诧异的巧合酿下的悲剧也不足为奇。
前三十分钟手持镜头的快速蒙太奇，之后的两个多小时开始正常叙事，很长，但我看得很耐心，猜到结局但我仍然很喜欢。
真正把历史具化到个人。法比安，一个小小作家的生命历程太鲜活了，宏大的叙事太让人疲倦，很容易忘掉“人”，忘掉生活里砸在人头上的秩序与混乱，而仅仅记住所谓的历史，事实上后者经常是被无端地代表，象征性地被使用，而“人”就被历史轻柔地模糊掉，没有人在意，一个只存在群像的时代无疑可怖。法西斯与经济危机星星点点地散布于整个影片，大量的主观镜头与画面的跳动，是人物的视点，也是脑袋里那些细碎思维的真切反应。
电影内容或许很有意义，也很有警示性，但这绝不能令它成为一部好电影
三个小时的电影，也能一口气看完，这部片子确实牛！过往岁月的恢宏背景，放下了立体饱满的男主角和各色人物，真的是一部好电影，抵过活三年。
轴心说“轴心”是轴心
一切开启的时候是最好的时光
看着以前的世界，我会觉得它只能走向毁灭，你要是告诉我他会变成今天这样，我是无法相信的。当然，我们可能还是走在毁灭的路上，只是还没有到达
法比安下水救人，沉入水底，德国仅有的良知与理想沉默了。在餐厅的女生没有等来爱人与希望，等来了纳粹和战争。
激赞，不落窠臼的剧本, “迫真”对镜头语言, 将弥漫着的愁塑造得如此深度实为难得。
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