The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories 1981 one on netflix

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.