Jean Arthur stars as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost in Wilder's satire of American sexual mores. She arrives in bombed-out postwar Berlin in 1947 as part of a congressional delegation assigned to investigate the moral behavior of the American occupying troops. As part of her mission, she delivers a cake baked by his fiancee to Capt. John Pringle (John Lund), who immediately trades it on the black market for a mattress, which he takes to the apartment of his current girlfriend, Erika von Schluetow (Marlene Dietrich), an alluring German nightclub singer. While touring the city, researching the G.I.s appetite for blond German women and alcohol, Phoebe, mistaken for a German, is picked up by some of the soldiers and taken to a club which features the singing of Erika. When she sees a familiar cake being served, she becomes suspicious and orders John to watch the woman's apartment to identify her American lover. After seeing some newsreel footage of Erika with Hitler, Phoebe asks John to show her the woman's file, but he distracts her from further investigation by coming on to the congresswoman, who responds with surprising passion. A comedy edged with cruelty, it features one of Dietrich's quintessential performances.
Billy Wilder又把二战后的德国拎出来调侃，嘲讽了美国悲切了德国。两个女人撑起全片。Jean Arthur从造型上就引领全片，亮~Dietrich一如既往真女神，潇洒又风情！PS：Billy Wilder是多钟情于Dietrich的腿？
我以为那个女的是俄罗斯的党员，头发和寂寞生科一样
我的失望来自两部分。当你知道比利怀尔德可以拍出像《热情如火》这样的好电影，《柏林艳史》就显得很生硬，笑点也都感觉很僵（当然，前者是11年后的电影）。另一方面可能真的吃不消没有逻辑、只有浓烈情感和男性荷尔蒙的人物关系转变，甜到发腻。对当时德国还有政治的刻画太过简单，而“congress-woman”也有故意丑化之嫌。将极大的权力集中在这位“从政的女性”，却将她写成极度情绪化的形象，还不如《尼诺切卡》...
Marlene Dietrich真是一个强悍御姐。 跟保守古板情窦没开的国会议员，德国女歌手显然魅力更大。但比利怀德的风格呢，还是让国会议员得手了——当菲比一步一步把约翰尼逼到角落强行要跟他在一起的时候，整一个女痴汉。只好无奈摇头大笑，这很比利怀德。
故事发生在怀德亲眼见过的被炸为废墟的战后柏林，探讨了美国军人与柏林女人的亲密关系，是查尔斯•布莱克特和比利·怀德合作的倒数第二部作品（最后一部是《日落大道》）。“怀德的天才之处在于他把一个喜剧困局置入到了一个对爱国的、无知的美国与被战争蹂躏、冷漠无情的德国之间的冲突的隐喻之中
