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.
还是得承认故事本身放在今天看是偏弱的，但是81年竟然是40年前了，最后那些幕后看的人动容
肯德基好识货啊！手办到这一款~~好惊喜！！我爱吃鸡！
女儿说，这是她近期看过的所有动画里的第一名。
在选修课上看的~~~就以现在的眼光来看~这部二十多年前的动画片依旧是国产动画业的翘楚~~~
有豆瓣这帮崇洋媚外狗存在，中国传统动漫至少在评分这点上是永远也干不过外国动漫了。日本，美国动漫随随便便上个9分吧，我给《中华小子》标分时候《中华小子》才8.7分😂。
21年新修复版本画面磨皮过于“干净”，失去了应有的纹理层次感，可惜。
当年邻居家拿电影画报糊墙，靠近房顶的地方就是《天书奇谭》的剧照，本人觊觎已久，某天趁邻居不注意搬桌子上椅子把画报给撕下来带走了。后来在央视六套看完全片，悲剧动画，泪流满面，当时认为这片是葫芦娃的续集来着。
剧本很扎实，有悬疑人设的障眼法，也有故事细节的闪光点。
童年经典，现在觉得也挺好看的，我们的传统神话故事可是博大精深的，现在反而没有以前拍的有味道了，失去了精髓!
四五十年前的中国动画叫“艺术”。期待《大闹天宫》修复重映。
#纯正的中国风美术片风格#
尊重演职人员，把所有人都放在了片头。原著居然是罗贯中？？！最终结束于“师傅”…
非常经典，师父结尾泪目~~~补：2021年11-15影院4K 修复版 大光明影院观影圆满
六星
经典之经典。中国早期动画，美术品味与质量都秒杀现在哈日商业画法；而且，基于中国民间神话改编，故事性很强，充满玄幻氛围。即使现在重看，也觉趣味十足。
剧本并不能说特别好，但妙在各自之间，每个角色的独特设计与演出，以及角色与场景的融洽。相比日本动画擅长的横轴延展，本作呈现中国动画的形式在于多处化横向银幕矩形为局部视野，以纵向徐徐拉开一幅幅卷轴画，上至云顶，下至城邑，天界人间的神话体系早已决定着这种现代演绎形式。
你永远可以相信这个整天摇屁股的五岁孩子要表达的东西有多么深刻。
女狐狸：桃花，乱花渐欲迷人眼，胭脂水粉惑人心。
中国美术的精髓，用最少的线条创造最深入人心的形象，就说狐女那个媚气，无出其右。现在的国漫追求视觉元素最大化，越发繁复，却难抵深刻之实。断层过后，无法不怀念这种纯净。袁公被绑走的时候哭惨了。
“奇、趣、美”，“探民族风格之路，敲喜剧样式之门”；
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