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.
当赤身裸体跳入清澈的湖水里时，解脱所有束缚，在自由里游荡。
西方红楼大梦 很诡异的天气 听到了不算好也不算坏的消息 食堂下来遇到了朋友 去聊天又拿了她们的菜
包袱抖的不错。 主演真的会用枪，不是那种“训练过的”。
当赤身裸体跳入清澈的湖水里时，解脱所有束缚，在自由里游荡。
曾几何时，
前半段的巴黎描述的真好，后半段就有点赶进度了
19世纪的巴黎，满大街都是于连那样志大才疏的小伙子，在社会向现代化转型的进程里被撕的粉碎。艺术与贵族的关系是依附与赎买，艺术评论无关良心，是被随意涂抹的假面，人性的贪婪与邪恶在腐烂的城市里任意流淌，好一副关于堕落的全景浮世绘。
被无情摧毁于无声；
好的故事，今时今日依然如是，可见其经典，人类进步真缓慢。男女主的表演差了些，其它完成中规中矩。
电影中的点睛之笔多来源于旁白，因为那是文豪巴尔扎克写就的。场景精美严整，演员表演也各安其分，就仿佛是一场精雕细琢的歌剧。主角的行为动作总是慢慢的，初期在乡间自矜于贵族血统的舒慢，进城后极力模仿和融入大贵族们的怯慢，投入名利场后放浪形骸的迟慢，万事皆空爱人死去后的痴慢。就算他最后走入湖中，泪也是慢慢的染开，水波也是慢慢的散开。卢西安就是这么慢半拍的度过他激荡的青年时代，也与他想要的东西都曾只差一步之遥，无论是爱、头衔或永恒的文学，而他最终“不再期待，开始生活”。巴尔扎尔人生中一定见过至少一个卢西安，而巴黎造就了很多卢西安，因为每个人都可能是卢西安。
讲的是一个年轻的外省诗人随贵妇情人进入巴黎、被丢下于是转行做小报记者、借助各路朋友敌人摸爬滚打逐渐声名鹊起、企图重新获得贵族头衔最终彻底幻灭的经历。
让我想去读一下原著了～巴尔扎克系列在现今社会越来越具有警示作用。
我想到了所有那些在觉醒之后，必须找到内在力量的人……巴尔扎克
3.5，全程多兰口述旁白，这样一个野心勃勃、盛极转衰的年轻人故事已经被描绘得太多，但这一部插入了文学的视角。同样的文学情怀，在平民是遥不可及的梦想，在贵族却不过是生活的锦上添花。
好看，故事完整，流畅，也不枯燥无聊，大概是那个年代的氛围很足，男主很帅，多兰也帅，阶级问题在那个时代影响很大，男主主要是飘了，如果稳一点见好就收就好了，从无到有再到无，经典。
今年最正统的西部片。从故事到画面，从对白到配乐，无比复古，无比传统，在这个科恩兄弟和昆汀用各种现代手法让西部片不那么西部的时代，在被政治正确绑架的好莱坞剧本陷入低能死循环的时代，《老亨利》让人重新回到约翰韦恩和伊斯特伍德纵横好莱坞时那个传奇的西部岁月。全片不仅没有黑人，甚至没有女主，剧本如主角般隐忍而克制，但该出手时绝不拖泥带水。荒凉、冷寂、写实却不沉闷、传奇而不夸张，让人重新踏上《原野奇侠》与《不可饶恕》中那块充满生死无常、人性狡诈、传说往事、宿命传承的剽悍西部大陆。
有文化的人吵架形容对方微不足道会说like a breeze… 主要还是巴尔扎克写得好，但是也没有必要加旁白加得那么多，电影完全沦为书的附属，比起同样是名著改编的《纯真年代》差了点克制
回过头来看，名利场的虚伪傲慢，媒体与金钱利益的较量，被时代裹挟的年轻梦想家，自我沉醉麻木，走向自我堕落幻灭，这样的故事，无论经历多少个时代的更迭，终究不停上演，一切都是腐朽。
终究是一场游戏一场梦 中间很多新闻媒体和影评套用在今天依然现实
物质能够创造一切，也能够摧毁一切，迷失在财富地位和所谓的才华中，待黄粱梦醒方才知晓何为真，唉！
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