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.
我还是小朋友时就能relate，但不喜欢频繁闪回和导演老公…
我觉得挺好的呀，甚至让我在回想《斯宾塞》，虽然是different problems但可能关于一个女人一个母亲还是让女的来创作比较好。）关于“母职”并不是天然就必须属于（适合）女性的探讨。“母亲”有太多种了，但同时“成为”母亲到底有多少来自于她自己，还是来自于别人或者那些她不知道是什么的东西
从《天才女友》到这部，从书到剧到电影，完全看不下去。费兰特的作品真是挑性别，太有意思了。
抉择吧，癫狂吧，把母亲神圣的伪装撕碎吧，换取做一个人的资格
身为人母，难免抱歉，要么对自己、要么对他人。生而为人，同样如是，哪怕无悔，依然有憾。
靠演员的演技撑起的一部电影，让出轨、抛夫弃女去婚外恋的女人看上去不那么讨厌了。决定怀孕前推荐看这片，可以提前知道自己将面对什么，付出什么。恋爱如果是生命中的必须品，生孩不是。
第3490-可能是近期看过感触最深的一个片子。女人在怀孕生产育儿方面感受到的一切，让女性本就纤细敏感的心理，承受着男人这辈子无法感同身受的压力，严重的情况需要一辈子去消化和解。
3.0，科尔曼的哭戏啊，令人怜惜又坚忍不拔，华语圈谁能比肩呢？如果可以把现时的情景设计得更精妙一些，影片或许会更成功，不要低估观众的共情力和思考能力，导演想讲的其实在现在的叙事中已经有所提现，过去的种种呈现显得太过刻意。云淡风轻但时而澎湃，就是我们对情感创伤和心路历程最贴切的抚慰和亲昵。
没想到玛吉·吉伦哈尔执导的第一部长片电影竟然有着如此脱俗的观感，着实令我大吃一惊！从片名其实就可以看出她对于观众所设置的小心思。当我们都以为本片会是那种略带悬疑性质的女儿失踪类型的电影时，玛吉用最朴素平淡的镜头语言告诉我们都已经掉入了这个精巧的陷阱之中。
玛吉的导演处女作选中了一部女性主义作品来进行改编，从一个比较小众的角度反思母职的痛苦和责任。剧本和拍摄绝对是沾了原著小说的光，科尔曼完全撑住了女主这个非常丰满有细节的角色。她闪回中自己的角色对标的是达科塔饰演的年轻妈妈，即便有辈分上的差距，但她们的共性对某些观众来说非常容易代入，因为这是选择生育的女性的永恒命题：一个女性除了身为母亲和妻子之外，本质是一个有自我价值和欲望双重追求的普通人。身为观众也很难不被女儿们的吵闹和无尽的情绪价值索求而感到枯竭和绝望。有一个细节是遇到陌生登山客之后，了解到男人被抛下的是三个孩子并不是女孩而是男孩，女主黯然了。不得不说母亲与女儿的相连，就如同是女主无法抛下的娃娃和幻影中出现的橘子皮蛇般haunting她到天涯海角。你无法指责她什么，而那根刺扎与不扎，都在那里
致郁系电影。整个电影的调调都是彷徨和无助。看到片中才明白，原来是在描写女人在丧偶式婚姻和自己学术追求之间的挣扎。不是很能理解岛上黑帮漂亮老婆在片中的意图。只是为了制造悬疑惊悚的吗？片中通过女主角的话语，也了解到她对不承担家庭养育责任男人的鄙视，以及对年轻妈妈的怜悯关怀。片子很文艺，走很多意向风，同样的题材在在中国拍大概更会拍成一部drama。这部电影不是特别我的菜，但Olivia 实在是太会表演了，很有感染力
前两天就看完了，一直想着要写点什么，但千言万语最终只汇聚成了一句话：不婚不育，永葆青春，快乐似神仙～
3.5☆
【6.5+】恼人的孩童叽喳声，以及令人全程不安的环境，这些看似失衡的元素并非缺点，而啥好是女主最真实的感官体验。但是一些停留时间过长的特写还是有些毁坏观感。
好棒的电影处女作。the lost daughter 不如说是the lost mother。女人一旦成为母亲，这个角色就要背负一生，不管是爱自由爱学术天生自私，简直无处逃离。
片中对于男权的展现在于，尽管Leda选择背叛的初衷是为了自己的学术事业，但最终把她的东西发扬光大的却是一个男人。于是乎她为了自己的事业成为了一种依附，也因而背弃了家庭与道德，更甚者这与她所追求的"自由"也背道而驰。
各方面都很优秀以致于完全不像处女作。母亲 女儿 娃娃各种隐藏/替换身份的指代 紧张奏效的炸弹设置 题目里的LOST也是一语三关：丢失、迷失、失去。确实至少值一个最佳改编剧本。只不过我是单纯不喜欢这个故事 个人价值观所致。
早育毁一生。导演技巧不是很高。女主角特写，pov, 特写again, 配上一个音乐来force emotions。好多莫名的empty air。摄影构图普通，晚上的室内光不好看。
普通人男主来客串，有意思。/ 半个小时过去了，我看着nina面部特写，好生眼熟。原来是她。
Olivia真美。社会规训没得跑，女性在这样的结构内究竟能如何，所谓“天然的爱”真的是规训意义大于本身的。但是我也会想，生育不养育，或者不生育，就能解决大部分问题吗？好像也不是，自己内心要怎么面对呢？生育吊诡如人生：不经历不知道里面的苦痛，经历了就无法回头。
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