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.

Release Date : Jun 01, 1981

Runtime : 1h 30m

Genre : Drama  

Companies : Broadway Theatre Archive, Thirteen

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : marriage crisis, married couple, marriage