The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

1981•1h 30m

Drama

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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Production

Broadway Theatre Archive, Thirteen

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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

Tom Beauchurch

Pierre Santini

Pierre Santini

Claude Morin

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