The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

90 mins | Drama | June 1, 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.

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

90 mins | Drama | June 1, 1981

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
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.
Producers
Original title The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
Directors John Glenmeister, Nick Havinga
Writers Kenneth Cavander, Irwin Shaw

Cast

Jeff Bridges

as Michael Loomis

Carol Kane

as Frances Loomis

Charles Durning

as McMahon

Brian Dennehy

as Grimmet

Claudine Auger

as Ginette Beauchurch

Bob Sherman

as Tom Beauchurch

Pierre Santini

as Claude Morin