Three Women

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir In Trois Femmes three De Maupassant stories are dramatized each conveying the central theme of women falling in love In the first a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier In the second a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance And in the final episode a pregnant girl is adopted and protected by a small circle of friends In standard De Maupassant fashion each of the three stories in Trois Femmes is capped by a surprise twist