Movie Description
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
(1981)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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Nick Havinga,John Glenmeister
- Producer : Lindsay Law,Alan Shallcross
- Writer : Kenneth Cavander
- Cast : Jeff Bridges,Carol Kane,Charles Durning,Brian Dennehy,Claudine Auger,Bob Sherman,Pierre Santini
Cast
Michael Loomis
Frances Loomis
McMahon
Grimmet
Ginette Beauchurch
Tom Beauchurch
Claude Morin
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Facts
Original TitleThe Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
Status Released
Release Information
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1981-06-01
Original Language
Runtime 01h 30m
Production CompaniesBroadway Theatre Archive,Thirteen
Genres
- Drama
