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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.

Top Cast

  • Jeff Bridges

    Jeff Bridges

    Michael Loomis

  • Carol Kane

    Carol Kane

    Frances Loomis

  • Charles Durning

    Charles Durning

    McMahon

  • Brian Dennehy

    Brian Dennehy

    Grimmet

  • Claudine Auger

    Claudine Auger

    Ginette Beauchurch

  • Bob Sherman

    Bob Sherman

    Tom Beauchurch

  • Pierre Santini

    Pierre Santini

    Claude Morin

Overview

Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.

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