
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
Genres
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.
Details
Budget
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Revenue
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Runtime
90 min
Release Date
1981-06-01
Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Michael Loomis
Carol Kane
Frances Loomis
Charles Durning
McMahon
Brian Dennehy
Grimmet
Claudine Auger
Ginette Beauchurch
Bob Sherman
Tom Beauchurch
Pierre Santini
Claude Morin
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