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.
这改编简直牛上天啊！我一直在想，怎么样才能表现一个人分裂成两个自己跟自己下棋的画面呢，再没有把自己幻想成遇到世界冠军然后敌我不分博弈更加牛的表现形式了。原著中那么温和克制的结尾，会不会其实也只是B博士的一场幻想呢？至少这样的改编解读某种程度上帮助说明了《象棋的故事》之所以是茨威格最后一篇作品的原因。最不可思议的是，这部电影是德国人拍的，直面自己的黑历史，德国人真不是盖的！RESPECT!
关于热爱、电影、家庭和爱情。最令我念念不忘的居然是那一幕，等了三天才等来的唯一的落日，因为演员还没有准备好，而焦急又天真地甚至想告诉太阳让它能等一等。多么难得又美好的景色啊，可是不管怎么样，都无法阻止它逐渐逝去的脚步。就像那些在电影厂的美好青春一样。我实在是很喜欢那一段回忆的色调和质感。阿郎其实确实是没有当导演的才华吧，居然把分镜写得这么细，又没胆量在片场坚持自己的想法，明明跟着大导演拍了几部电影了，怎么还不懂得片场的状况百出，根本不可能做到全按想好的来呢。最后的结局，剧本与现实相交，回忆与当下切换，非常精彩又有点俗的结局。但总体来说，我还是挺喜欢这部电影的。
1.人在折磨别人的时候的创造力超乎想象。2.人自身的恐惧超乎想象。3.人对文化、知识、和心灵自由的渴望超乎想象。4.人的精神的韧性超乎想象。以上四点超越时代、地域、人种，你觉得这不够苦，那是因为你没有被人找到你最薄弱的环节。但好在人的精神只会被摧毁，不会被击败。当然这个击败怎么定义，烈士和叛徒理解方式是不一样的。叛徒们在内心里也是感觉自己获得了精神的胜利的。影片主角是一个贪图享乐、不关心人民疾苦、为保护私有财产卖命的文人雅士，不难理解他这样的人在一战后是如何被广大人民所鄙视。但是再高尚远大的社会理想都不应该否定人对美好、富足和稳定生活的追求。革命是暴动，但不是抢夺，不是毁灭。
不明白为何女主如此义无反顾地爱着男主。有点联想到千年女优
劇情不出彩 依舊為日式誇張演技和女性角色隱忍設定 不過還是被感動的一塌糊塗…
跟着笑场了好几次；后边又看得嚎啕大哭，一发不可收拾。。
整部片子有些割裂，但看到最后却还是被感动。
没看过原著，单论电影真的非常精妙。开头让人以为是双线叙事，随着主角在船上精神错乱出现端倪。中段本以为是先后发生的事件开始交错，并且频率逐渐密集，营造了一种惊悚的氛围，最后拿回手表的一刻让观众恍然大悟。奥德赛和象棋，凭借这两个媒介，男主角在脑海里自导自演了一趟旅行和一场棋局，最后走出酒店与船靠岸的情景交相辉映，实在是动人心弦。叔的演技可太好了，让人心都揪成一团。摄影讲究，真是赏心悦目。
学会了，还能这样玩紫玫瑰！/真是个美好的故事哭……可我不爱麻将不会赌马，老了要干什么来逃避
北京电影节打卡。男主这种男人竟然还能娶到老婆就离谱。片子搞笑的地方还挺搞笑的，结尾还是挺妙的。
一想到导演都91高龄了，还有什么可挑剔的呢
剧情雷人，看完了才知道是永野芽郁和山田洋次的作品。很抱歉只能给2颗星，多1颗也不想给。
对于二三十岁开始放弃自我，最后靠孙子助攻拿到奖项的烂赌鬼，很难产生共情。还好有永野芽郁在，观感好了一些。
一部老年人拍给老年人看的电影，描述了一个电影神话，也衬托出这个社会已经是垂垂老矣，暮年的气氛太强烈了。
男主这个角色太令人讨厌了，导致大打折扣…电影本身是很迷影的，日版《开罗紫玫瑰》，回顾戏里的复古服装好喜欢，山田洋次老爷爷可以称为“电影之神”呐
山田洋次的”不散”，跟電影的一生牽絆，在疫情面前感覺無力且脆弱。電影之神請保佑我有電影看
PS 电影是艺术加工，并不完全真实，关于主人公的经历电影看似美好，实际上可能却与电影相悖，不过该电影还是值得欣赏的。志尊淳在里面变化挺大的，不看演员表都认不出来了。
日本总能把这种电影温情合理化，本来以为是平俗的情节，不过就是根本上和电影元素没有太大关系了
现今老迈爱赌博，当年青春有才华，来回叙事的形式是动人的设定，感叹岁月，扼腕青春。后半段边刷手机边看的，只是大概了解致敬青春的剧情，有天堂电影院的味道。有时间要再刷一遍。
情节很割裂，故事很平淡，甚至因为巴斯特基顿和《开罗紫玫瑰》珠玉在前故事并不显新颖，但还是足够真诚好看。不管选择哪一条路都会后悔，人生就是如此，就像陀斯妥耶夫斯基的话一样：爱具体的人，不要爱抽象的人，要爱生活，不要爱生活的意义。对这部电影的喜爱源于对电影本身的喜爱。
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