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.
不对称的成熟度是众多青春片写作的底层逻辑，而落差的圆满又会沦为一种烂俗的结尾，更不提复古怀旧，胶片炫光，奔跑交叉剪辑等俗不可耐的形式手法，但抛开这些表层的印象，故事的缝合堪称不凡，它并非一套只满足合身需求的外衣，也同样散布着大量出挑但不抢眼的细腻设计，出挑的设计构成一种导演签名而非别的，一种定制化的成衣如同一种作者感的类型片。 被诟病的性别主义骑墙视点意味着都能找到共鸣，在共鸣之外还能察觉到一丝自省，PTA依旧是分析式的写作而非感受型写作。
终于把美国电影学会AFI 2021年度十佳电影+特别奖（观影时间顺序：《健听女孩》《犬之力》《沙丘》《倒数时刻》《国王理查德》《贝尔法斯特》《灵魂乐之夏》《不要抬头》《玉面情魔》《西区故事》《甘草披萨》）全都看了，和2020年相比，虽然没有一部像《心灵奇旅》那般直接问鼎我年度最爱的作品，但整体的观感还是更胜一筹，而其中个人目前感觉最喜欢的应该是《健听女孩》。
感觉像是《性本恶》和《私恋失调》的杂糅，说种族歧视的怕不是有病，这在嘲讽的不明显是那两个白人？
PTA的精益求精和高级的审美，就是最大亮点，而本片开场的调度好得没话说
趁男人还没变馊之前爱他，PTA的纯爱不是奶糖，而是甜中带甘。
可以直接套用《春江水暖》的短评——“软绵绵的，对抗尚需借助外部扰动生成，内外的能量都不太足。”
喜欢pta拍的爱情，总是那么不正常又很身在此山中。那个年代的色调配上胶片真是绝，但也不得不承认两位主角都不太吸引人，显得片子也冗长了起来。结尾好像麻将。
funny and deep love story
看得出来导演对一些小细节有仔细抓，但是看下来很多人物不够丰满又有点奇怪…故事也是这样…但是这个纯粹的故事剧本内容其实我还算是喜欢的（奥斯卡原创剧本估计可以拿到吧…）
就算包装成荒诞，我都多次不能理解这对主角脑子里究竟在想什么。
设定还是有趣的，但为了配合设定需要一个非常精妙的剧本才能效果拉满，很显然麻花团队还是比较糙的。马丽演美女大明星实在是有点恶心人了，魏翔这次当大男主扛住了，角色让人想起喜剧之王，个别部分有点浮夸，但不是他表演的问题，还是设定追求的这个效果有点过了
也许是我太浮躁，观影过程挺煎熬的，待来日重刷
虽然是男孩“看上”了女孩，但后来的视角完全转换了。对家庭的反抗、对现实的妥协、对大人物的祛魅、对自己的接纳……就是成长。
下半部分，也能算电影吗？
看这个片子前得先问下自己是不是PTA的粉丝，如果是导演真爱，那必须好评，这个音乐难道不好听吗，这个运镜难道不骚吗？yes，这就是PTA的电影，好玩又好笑，布莱德利库珀那段笑死我了！换句话说，如果不喜欢这个导演，那就没必要看了，坚持不了30分钟哈哈……
谁知道脑子里都在想些什么呢？跑向对方的身体不会说谎
喜欢70年代的画风，纯纯的爱，放到国内情人节上映多好啊
用憤怒、嫉妒、衝撞、意外、傲嬌、賭氣，等等青少年的毛病，來講「愛」。任世界如何改變，我遇到什麼樣的人，我都會一直愛你，我會在你出事時，不由自主地，朝你狂奔去。生命力的雀躍，被愛控制的奇怪自己，無法停止的奔跑——反覆講這三個東西，太瀟灑太可愛了！
春节档，要找一部老少咸宜的喜剧片，有多难。
真是要在夏天夜空下看的电影，虽然标签是复古温情片，但复古做到如此不动声色和彻底是导演掌控能力的证明，方方面面都在线！在暖色中也有一些暗潮-政治/同性恋/种族/石油危机等等，幸好导演还是保持了一个让大家feel good的心。对于70年代LA这个时空太特指也导致豆瓣分数不高，毕竟这是更适合西方文艺大叔爽的片子。
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