The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 1, 1981

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

Production Companies

Broadway Theatre Archive, Thirteen

Director

John Glenmeister

Description

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.