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.
Directors: Nick Havinga, John Glenmeister.
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Jeff Bridges as Michael Loomis |
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Carol Kane as Frances Loomis |
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Charles Durning as McMahon |
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Brian Dennehy as Grimmet |
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Claudine Auger as Ginette Beauchurch |
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Bob Sherman as Tom Beauchurch |
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Pierre Santini as Claude Morin |
| Writing | Kenneth Cavander | Writer |
| Directing | Nick Havinga | Director |
| Writing | Irwin Shaw | Short Story |
| Directing | John Glenmeister | Director |
| Production | Kevin Moriarty | Controller |
| Production | Lindsay Law | Producer |
| Production | Alan Shallcross | Producer |
| Sound | Elizabeth Swados | Original Music Composer |
