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.
彩色会让故事更生动，本来就是个活泼的故事和背景，就没必要去用黑白。何况你的配乐还那么流行。
这片子，其实画面拍的还蛮有厚度的。故事与主旨的话，看大家说是致敬自己的童年，自己的家乡。那其实已经避免了很多残酷血腥的暴力，更着重于美好的故事以及家人之间的相守与推动。还可以吧…比《西区故事》好看！哈哈哈
无法忍受。这样的黑白影像，这样的自传性质的文本故事，很难不碰瓷到《罗马》，但与其相提并论起来完全不能比。同样选取社会动荡大背景下与家庭往事的融合，但本片真的做到了假模假式、工业又刻意。大环境夹杂到家庭中去，但一味通过人物台词过分强调动荡不安，就像糖衣炮弹一样。片子呈现出的不是往日生活而像是流水过程，整体太过割裂，就连冲突与平复都如此儿戏，大环境-小环境没有更好融合。过分强调小男孩作为第一客体视角，将他塞入其他客体的镜头中去。摆出太多没有意义的独特机位，塞了太多不合时宜的往日金曲，就连自传性质的迷影属性也是如此苍白无力。
可能是看得不太认真？很多情绪我没有看出来，感受不到。
好温柔啊……真的是有情饮水饱，结尾的致辞也很温柔：为了留下的人，为了离开的人，也为了迷路的人……
太虚了，虽然英国片大多很克制，但也不能这么虚啊，强烈建议本片导演向肯洛奇拜师学艺，另外肯尼斯布拉纳说自己没有看过阿方索卡隆的《罗马》，如果你没说谎，我只能说你作为一个导演也不太合格。
6/10。其实整体的质感还可以，故事虽然普通，但把童年的美好与家庭、社会的暗流涌动展现了出来，算是完成了任务。然而故事还是过于琐碎，导致没有重点，而且所谓童年的美好大多透过看电影来呈现，是为剧作上的偷懒。
真的很讨厌这种把社会运动背景化，模糊化和脸谱化的电影 我们可以想象一部这样的电影：68年的时候，一对青年情侣既不想参加学生运动，也不想站在教授那一边；男生想去美国找到他们的救赎，女孩子因为家庭原因不肯走；最后女孩子父亲死了，母亲把他们送去了美国，远离了巴黎这个是非之地～～～(所以有没有导演来找我啊 我剧本都写好了呢)
东一榔头西一棒槌地铺开故事显得有些轻飘，不能说全无可取之处，至少整体气氛还挺温馨的……
真的很讨厌这种把社会运动背景化，模糊化和脸谱化的电影 我们可以想象一部这样的电影：68年的时候，一对青年情侣既不想参加学生运动，也不想站在教授那一边；男生想去美国找到他们的救赎，女孩子因为家庭原因不肯走；最后女孩子父亲死了，母亲把他们送去了美国，远离了巴黎这个是非之地～～～(所以有没有导演来找我啊 我剧本都写好了呢)
能润就不错了，还纠结那么多有的没的，好凡尔赛哦
贝尔法斯特里的罗马，私人回忆的珍贵在其真实和私密，只是未必总能讲出好故事。可是好喜欢朱迪丹奇的最后一幕，我们都是无脚鸟，在这个陌生分裂的地球上不知疲倦地向前飞。Go. Go now. Don’t look back.
一星半；毫无才气的作品，通篇只看到对《罗马》的拙劣模仿和各种MV串烧，细节浮皮潦草，人物形象扁平，导演没有能力交待清楚贝尔法斯特的时代背景，只能用老电影片段、新闻播报将自己破碎的童年记忆和时代信息塞给观众，既笨拙又浅薄。电影转场和故事推进基本靠播放歌曲MV的形式，也充分暴露了导演对电影语言把握上的无知
影片有太多时代元素的拼贴，但最宝贵的还是私人记忆的重组与还原，这是一个人的原点，是挥之不去的乡愁，就像片尾的那句话——给那些留下的故人，给那些离开的游子，给那些所有迷失的人。
远好过他自导自演的两部波罗，至少在这部电影中有真情实感而不只有自大自恋。是讨巧的，精致到好像每一步都精确计算过，从诗句到老电影到配乐，甚至到每一滴眼泪，从而显得有些矫情，而且单薄。但谁没有童年呢，谁不会向往象征着无忧无虑无拘无束充满了无数可能性天大的事不过是眼前最小的事的童年呢？能感受这些，就够了。老电影是彩色的，其他都是黑白的。
音乐铺得有一点满，虽然用了黑白但是整体镜头给得非常工业化，buddy和爷爷聊“离开”这件事时挺动人的。
对这种充满复古风的儿童电影毫无抵抗力，虽然电影只是通过儿童视角在呈现那个年代大人的世界，但是依然充满着活力和童真
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连预告片都不用看，一看海报和片名就知道这片就是照着《罗马》拍的……那就没什么意思了。试图模仿和复刻别人的风格，让这部电影从构思阶段就开始失败了。
看得舒心又揪心，从这个普通人家的故事里，看到自己的小时候，想起今早和母亲通的电话。有的人离开，有的人坚守，生活就像片中神父形容的那样，变成叉子的两个尖尖，从此分叉，但神父又没有全说对，没有哪条路是天堂或地狱，只是不同的人生，因为曾经共同的来处，而互相眺望和想念。
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