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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories (1981)

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.

  • Drama

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Jeff BridgesJeff BridgesMichael Loomis
  • Photo of Carol KaneCarol KaneFrances Loomis
  • Photo of Charles DurningCharles DurningMcMahon
  • Photo of Brian DennehyBrian DennehyGrimmet
  • Photo of Claudine AugerClaudine AugerGinette Beauchurch
  • Photo of Bob ShermanBob ShermanTom Beauchurch
  • Photo of Pierre SantiniPierre SantiniClaude Morin

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