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.
两个小时像是过分地拉长了中段，然后突然高潮。
单纯来看，肯定算是网飞电影里水准比较强的电影，豪华卡司加上精湛演技，让全片看点十足。但是情感渲染上还是差了很多，在传记性的剧情片里算是比较一般的
牛逼闪闪，热血沸腾，对白宛如加特林机关枪。
“果蝇的一辈子，周末愉快。”
艾伦索金带着强烈个人风格的左派作品，密集犀利的台词是子弹，锋利痛快的剪辑是刀刃，说的是60年代的芝加哥七君子审判，瞄准的却是当今美国。左派与否，这个时代需要民主，民主需要发声。
叙事技巧高超，但内容还是脸谱化的政治正确。
所以，驴党所做的一切都是正义的，同样的行为在象党这边就都是暴政，对左狗来说，警察就是屠夫，只有做驴党党卫军的警察才是好警察，不愧是能出AOC这样的垃圾民主党纳粹的驴党；好莱坞恋童癖组织你们可劲儿的舔吧
台词看似字字珠玑实则含义空洞，流于表象夸夸其谈，看后没有经典人权，庭审，政治片值得回味。这题材赶在今夏美国暴乱之际可以加分
两个多月没有看电影，享受每一分钟。跳出电影的话，对选举的热爱有点迷信了？
When the people shall grow weary of their constitutional right to amend their government, they shall exert their revolutionary right to dismember and overthrow that government. 历史往复
每个人的出生决定了斗争的方式，甚至结局。Abby挺让人唏嘘的
小雀斑最后陈述的时候我眼泪一下就流出来了，还是那个Aaron Sorkin,那个心中充满理想主义的艾伦索金。不旺我用The Newsroom做屏保这么多年。比茉莉牌局导演视角更成熟，纯文本的庭审记录为基础，也更能发挥他的优势/世事时代自有评论
3.5 啧原来和波斯语课一样是真·你的名字，索金老师燃真心是燃，写主旋律剧的编剧们特别值得来学习，只是他的套路化的手法看多了也有点疲乏，煽得点掐得真好，有些目的性的东西也过于明显，也可以说是他的某种投机取巧的方式；以一场庭审串联起的烽火连天却又燃情四海的理想主义的年代，属于芝加哥的街垒之夜，除了新闻镜头，几乎全赖室内调度与演员功力；感觉法官和庭审戏还是有点偏，比如讥讽法官名字都老记不得之类的，不如正正经经严肃型描绘，有些讽刺性的内容点到即止，写出当时的保守局限，继而自然就更能凸显进步意义了不好嘛；“Father, No!” 观众席笑得和片中旁听席一样笑翻了
“Do you think it's possible there were seven demonstrators in Chicago last summer leading 10000 undercover cops in protest?” 吐槽民运组织被便衣警察渗透之深笑死。
"That's right, we're not goin' to jail because of what we did, we're goin' to jail because of who we are!"
结尾的总结陈词一下子让我想起《辩护人》一下子戳中了泪框，而电影里展示的集会时与警察们的对持又难以不想到19年的香港。虽是七君子，但电影中心主要是彼此看不上的两位以及一位黑人身上，通过他们窜起庭审的同时窜起了游行，庭审的结尾同样也是游行的高潮，这种叙事很棒。自由从来都是争取来的！
最后的庭审群像仿佛油画
不顶不是美国人！THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING!
(SDS)
这世界上根本就没有所谓自由和自由的天堂 motherfucker
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