(The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

90 minutes

Year:

1981

Directors:

Nick Havinga

Production companies:

Broadway Theatre Archive,

Thirteen

Actors:

Michael Loomis

Frances Loomis

McMahon

Grimmet

Ginette Beauchurch

Crews:

Writer

Director

Short Story

Director

Controller