The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
1981, English. Directed by Nick Havinga & John Glenmeister.
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.
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- 1h 30m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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- Released
- 1 June 1981
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Kenneth Cavander
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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 June 1981. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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If you liked The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories, try Faces, The Pumpkin Eater, 5 Flights Up.
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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories (1981) was directed by Nick Havinga and John Glenmeister and stars Jeff Bridges, Carol Kane, Charles Durning.