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.
说教味太浓，不够自然，自由成长还是跳脱不了时代局限
妈妈的设定好疯我好爱（既然是心理惊悚就不要把鸟设计的这么恶心了吧。。。
好恶心的鸟，好烂的片，怎么最近很多欧美导演开始玩这种风格了
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对最后的结局完全摸不着头脑，莫名其妙的转化。里面人物对超自然事件对发生接受的也太好了吧，父母感情不合女儿对介入的第三者接受的也太好了吧……一切都好悬浮……恐怖片果然是没有下确界的一种类型片
全片弥漫着很强的不安全感，小女孩可太美了，处女作就分饰两角，结尾太漂亮了！
挺有讽刺意义的，比起女儿，母亲更爱自己的贪婪，放纵与虚荣。
3.5星，其实是3星的恐怖片，但我喜欢它的摄影运镜、美术指导以及从一而终的克制。导演有点过于担忧观众看不懂她的表达，把所有的隐喻都拍得很直白，少了能够深挖和回味的part。
国内的儿童魔幻电影仿佛停留在2000年，全剧组人员都毫无灵气，把一板一眼、中规中矩、劳民伤财体现在方方面面，看得味如嚼蜡。相比国外《潘神的迷宫》，十几年过去，精灵出现的场景仍然历历在目，心驰神往。导演还是转行去做快手吧。
北欧风格。重压之下，内心孤独与阴暗面的具象化产物，孵化出恶魔的种子。父母不应把自己的意愿太强加于孩子。女主妈妈演绎出色，那笑容真的很渗人。恭喜修理哥远离这奇怪病态的一家人。
这个分有点不应该啊，不知道打低分的是怎么想的，反正我是看的挺开心的
一个疯子一样的妈和一个正常的爸 以及一群没演技的小演员 这就很尬
说教味太浓，不够自然，自由成长还是跳脱不了时代局限
小三竟然是片子里唯一的正常人┓(´∀`)┏
虽然片子有点怪诞，有点恶，但是我真的看的「津津有味」。
不讨厌，也没有多少喜欢，感动不起来了。
最近很出圈的一部芬兰body horror，北欧中产家庭的mother issue，结尾很猛。
总觉得题材在美式恐怖片里似曾相识，但是拍出来的效果却又很独特很不一样，带有一丝冷冰冰的色彩和美感。
一个并不算恐怖的恐怖片，逼女主太紧的妈妈，无能的父亲，不懂事的弟弟，真是让人窒息的家庭…小女主演技挺不错的
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