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Michael Maloney

Clare Corbett

David Seddon

Dan Starkey

David Neville

Ronald Frame

Georges Simenon

Drama on 4: The Other Simenon: Episode 2: Three Beds in Manhattan

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Episode 2: Three Beds in Manhattan

Three Beds in Manhattan

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1946. A French actor in New York to get over a scandal meets a mysterious divorcee.

It is 1946, and Francois, a well-known French actor, is adrift in New York escaping a scandal, when he meets enigmatic divorcee Kay.

The second of three new dramatisations by Ronald Frame of stories by Georges Simenon.

When he wasn't writing Maigret, Georges Simenon produced a huge body of novels, often tough, gripping and psychologically-penetrating dissections of lives confounded by fate. In The Other Simenon we explore three more of his intriguing tales.

In Three Beds in Manhattan a French actor, in New York to get over a scandal, meets a divorcee in a bar. They spend the night together and find it hard to separate. Roaming the Manhattan streets, hitting its late-night dives, Francois and Kay struggle to understand what it is that has brought them together. Will their relationship endure?

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Series of Georges Simenon novels dramatised by Ronald Frame

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