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. marriage crisis, married couple, marriage
Released: Jun 01, 1981
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Genre: Drama
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Brian Dennehy, Claudine Auger, Bob Sherman, Pierre Santini
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