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  • Great Performances The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories (Season 9, Episode 16)
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    TV Episode | 90 min | Music, Musical

Great Performances

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories (Season 9, Episode 16)
TV-G
TV Episode | 90 min | Music, Musical

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...See moreThree 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. Written by duke1029@aol.com See less
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Directors
John Glenmeister (story "The Man Who Married a French Wife") | Nick Havinga (stories "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" and "The Monument")
Writers
Kenneth Cavander | Irwin Shaw (stories The Girls In Their Summer Dresses, The Monument and The Man Who Married a French Wife)
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Jun 1, 1981

Release date
Jun 1, 1981 (United States)

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7 cast members
Name Known for
Jeff Bridges
Michael Loomis (story 'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses') Michael Loomis (story 'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses')   See fewer
Carol Kane
Frances Loomis (story 'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses') Frances Loomis (story 'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses')   See fewer
Charles Durning
McMahon (story 'The Monument') McMahon (story 'The Monument')   See fewer
Brian Dennehy
Grimmet (story 'The Monument') Grimmet (story 'The Monument')   See fewer
Claudine Auger
Ginette Beauchurch (story 'The Man Who Married a French Wife') Ginette Beauchurch (story 'The Man Who Married a French Wife')   See fewer
Bob Sherman
Tom Beauchurch (story 'The Man Who Married a French Wife') Tom Beauchurch (story 'The Man Who Married a French Wife')   See fewer
Pierre Santini
Claude Morin (story 'The Man Who Married a French Wife') Claude Morin (story 'The Man Who Married a French Wife')   See fewer
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