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p 　　John Kent Randolph Scott , a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines Fred Astaire and the latter 三九 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 br 　　John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie Helen Westley , who owns the fashionable quot Roberta quot gown shop While there, he meets her chief assistant and secretly the head designer , Stephanie Irene Dunne John is quickly smitten with her br 　　Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well quot Countess Scharwenka quot , a temperamental customer at Roberta 三九 s, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz Ginger Rogers She gets Huck 三九 s band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer br 　　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 br 　　When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop Knowing nothing about women 三九 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 br 　　Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John 三九 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 br 　　John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop With Roberta 三九 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 三九 s reputation br 　　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 四 as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show 五 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 p