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.
电影可以给你讲各种成功的励志故事，教你努力的方式，却没法带给你天赋和努力。规划只是生活的一部分，脚踏实地，专注当下。
As a fan of Sharapova’s from the good ol’ times I remember the fear of seeing Queen S’s name on Maria’s next round. Man that ain’t no rivalry, ‘twas slaughtering. I wish I could see one of those matches once more, where the Williams Sisters dominated them courts, where the opponents were destroyed by their first serve. Man, ‘twas golden.
看完传记，深深地了解了计划的重要性。对于威尔史密斯奥斯卡打主持人事件，只能说，成年人的世界只有法律，在社会主义制度下，打人肯定是不对的，没办法。
艺术价值不高，也有点pua。但还是推荐给家长们看看。话说老爸的运动夹克都挺好看的。
和健听女孩一样的问题，是个完整而好看的故事，但是过于简单了，女孩们面临的真实困境都被一笔带过，只要象征性提了一下街区混乱，经济拮据，然后父亲做了个计划就开挂了，中间莫名其妙插了一些小混混捣乱的情节和母亲控诉父亲出轨的情节，然后都没下文了，每天说孩子们要上学要去教堂，然后就是从来未表现这部分生活。总体来说从故事到人物都过于单薄了。“这个世界上最坚韧、最强大、最危险的生物就是会思考的女性。”
“这就是努力训练的成果。”
黑白很有质感，不过导致影片观感气质阴冷，和叔侄之间的情感不搭调
太疯了。可以感觉到影片对父亲的处理还是正面化了，现实当中不知道，这是唯结果论和唯过程论将产生分歧的案例；而当拍成电影时结果也必会对过程的呈现产生干扰。
拍得不难看，但也只是因为照本宣科，并没有体现出任何导演的功力。最开始就为孩子计划好人生的教育方式实在是让人感到恐怖，鸡娃成功了就能拿出来当成范例，那失败的呢？根本都不能算体育电影，一整个成功学推销课，大威小威基本隐形在父亲这个形象背后，从片名开始就是如此。
真人真事奇人奇事，男主不喜欢别人称俩女儿的成功是奇迹，不可思议。因为在他看来是理所当然，必然的。不具备可复制性。父亲对女儿深情流露那一段很感人，威尔史密斯演了一个偏执狂父亲，让人又爱又恨的那种，了不起
7/10，总体上看，本片是一部制作工整的传记片。和年年都有的冲奥传记片相比，本片最大的特点是比同类电影更“过火”。首先本片对种族问题的展现采用了过多的直白控诉，这达成了深化主题的目标，但也破坏了叙事的平衡，去年的《蓝调天后》在这一点上做得就远比本片强。其次，本片在许多戏份里都安排了男主角发表情绪化独白，这些独白大多在叙事上并不必要，甚至显得突兀，显然是基于冲奥需求而作出的考量，并且执行得并不精明。以水准来看，本片难以从其他年货传记片中脱颖而出。
“没有人尊重过理查德，但他们会尊重你们”
看得出Will Smith为了今生能拿到奥斯卡奖真是可以不惜任何代价，可惜越是急功近利越是矫情做作。PS这项目预算居然高达五千万USD，看来挂名联合出品人的大小威本人也从中捞到了不少！
if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.要有计划，有定力，老爸一直坚持文化教育高于体育竞赛和赚钱。结果赚的钱反而多。真的有脑子才是最重要的。体育运动真的是体力，心理和脑力的综合竞赛。
有这样“偏执”的老爸对于大小威来说是个好事，特别是在那个网球属于贵族运动的时代（现在还是不是就不知道了），没有老爸的执着坚持，根本不可能有机会。
“这就是努力训练的成果。”
20220220le。好莱坞熬制的美式鸡汤。
Serena fans might be disappointed
节奏控制不错，剧本同样扎实，放十年前属于典型的冲奥片。要的是一点尊重，以及出人头地。★★★☆/7.2
自負又自卑的父親，自負於女兒網球天賦，又自卑於自身身份，固執的父親最後還是遂了女兒的意。
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