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data-redactor-tag="em">Steel Magnolias</em>, the play that spired <style data-emotn="css 1e1wdvt">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#0A5C80;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:#0A5C80;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the inic film" class="body-lk css-1e1wdvt et3p2gv0">the inic film</a> by the same name, opened off-Broadway. In the s sce s but at New York's WPA Theatre, the script has spawned untls stage rendns across the untry and abroad, cludg a 2005 Broadway n starrg Delta Burke and Rebec Gayheart, and TV adaptatns like the 2012 Lifetime movie starrg Queen Latifah and Ale Woodard. Its playwright, Robert Harlg, a Tulane Universy Law School grad who shunned his gree favor of relotg to New York Cy to bee an actor, never imaged would see the light of day. "I thought somebody would fd a drawer when they were throwg out my stuff after I was ad," he says. "I had no illns or lns of granur."</p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="2" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="Steel Magnolias the play 1987" tle="Steel Magnolias the play 1987" loadg="lazy" width="1024" height="970" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="//" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css 1fpbif8">{width:0;m-width:100%;paddg-top:0.625rem;marg-bottom:0.3125rem;font-fay:Gotham,Gotham-fallback,Geia,Tim,Sans-serif;font-size:0.75rem;le-height:1.2;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><div class="css-1fpbif8 e1xqj1sx1">Harlg on the stage set of \’steel magnolias\' wh nstance shulman (l) and rosemary prz, 1987.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-10ff7h7 e6iqd2">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Harlg grew up Natchoch, Louisiana, the olst settlement om the Louisiana Purchase, wh two younger siblgs. He wrote the play after his sister, San, died om plitns of type 1 diabet. He'd been New York for eight years at that pot, a perd durg which San had married and cid to start a fay, spe doctors' ncerns that dog so uld serly jeopardize her health. Shortly after givg birth to a baby boy 1983, San's circulatory system and kidneys began to fail. A kidney transplant om her mother, and dialysis, did ltle to help. She died durg mor surgery 1985, at the age of 33. Aaid his two-year-old nephew would never know who his mother was, Harlg started wrg. "All I wanted to do was have somebody remember her," he says. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="6" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1eiql25">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css t4lf4l">{lor:#0A5C80;font-fay:Kepler,Kepler-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Serif;font-size:2.1875rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.5625rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><blockquote class="css-t4lf4l e1pe3zr90">"I always thought the women my muny were so wty and clever," he says. "In a lot of ways, they talked bumper stickers."</blockquote><style data-emotn="css 1myn6mj">{background:radial-gradient(4px at 50% lc(100% + 1.8px),#0000 lc(99% - 1px),#3e93c3 lc(101% - 1px) 99%,#0000 101%) lc(50% - 6px) lc(50% - 2px + 0.5px)/12px 4px repeat-x,radial-gradient(4px at 50% -1.8px,#0000 lc(99% - 1px),#3e93c3 lc(101% - 1px) 99%,#0000 101%) 50% lc(50% + 2px)/12px 4px repeat-x;ntent:'';display:block;height:0.313rem;-webk-mask:var(--mask);mask:var(--mask);marg-top:0.625rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-transform:rotate(-180g);-moz-transform:rotate(-180g);-ms-transform:rotate(-180g);transform:rotate(-180g);width:4.438rem;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-1myn6mj eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="8" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">He started the tale as a short story—"that lasted about half a morng"—before swchg to dialogue, a format he felt more fortable wh as an actor. Later, when he told a iend who worked as a receptnist at a talent agency what he'd been up to, she passed on to an agent. </p><style data-emotn="css f1dz33">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="small" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="10" class="align-center size-small embed css-f1dz33 e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="Steel Magnolias" tle="Steel Magnolias" loadg="lazy" width="698" height="431" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="//" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-1fpbif8 e1xqj1sx1">Julia Roberts as Shelby and Sally Field as M\’lynn \'steel magnolias\'</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-10ff7h7 e6iqd2">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="12" class="dropp css-mm386s et3p2gv0">The play wasn't origally tend as a edy. As Harlg's iend Margo Martdale, of <em data-redactor-tag="em">Milln Dollar Baby </em>and <em data-redactor-tag="em">Augt: Osage County</em> fame, whom he wrote the role of Tvy for, recently remd him, prr to openg night, they envisned the story as a tragedy. "It wasn't until dienc me and started rpondg to the way the women talked and how wonrful the actrs were that we realized, <em data-redactor-tag="em">I gus this is funny—until 's not</em>," Harlg rells. </p><p data-no-id="14" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Unlike the film, the play featur an all-female st, portrayg characters Harlg moled after his mom's iends as he remembered them om his childhood. "I always thought the women my muny were so wty and clever," he says. "It was like a wty one-upmanship [between them]. In a lot of ways, they talked bumper stickers." He worried that the real-life Ouiser, a character fed by her cranky and btally hont nature, would regnize herself and take offense, but as women om his hometown began to see the play, "They all said they were Ouiser." Durg stg for the film, when director Herbert Ross offered Shirley MacLae first choice of any part except M'Lynn or Shelby, she immediately wanted "the really bchy one." </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="16" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="Leg, People, Fun, Photograph, Drs, Stg, Style, Monochrome, Thigh, Fashn, " tle="Leg, People, Fun, Photograph, Drs, Stg, Style, Monochrome, Thigh, Fashn, " loadg="lazy" width="1024" height="688" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="//" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-10ff7h7 e6iqd2">Getty</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"People would like to feel they were the person who always had the snappy eback and would always speak the tth," says Harlg. "I thk honty is beg a much more admired qualy as the years go by."</p><p data-no-id="20" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The metaphor of "steel magnolia" isn't expound upon the play or film, though Harlg says the juxtaposn of strength and agily is apt for Southern women. "My mother would always say to handle magnolia blossoms refully bee they bise so easily. You thk of this flower that is so lite and has to be handled wh re, but is actually ma of much stronger stuff." </p><p data-no-id="22" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Dpe his talent for pturg the sence of ladi below the Mason-Dixon le, Harlg says he's no thory. "I don't thk anybody n be. 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In many ways, Harlg has done for his hometown <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="what Chip and Joanna Ga have done for Wa" class="body-lk css-1e1wdvt et3p2gv0">what Chip and Joanna Ga have done for Wa</a>, Texas. Once <em data-redactor-tag="em">Steel Magnolias</em> the film began shootg on lotn Natchoch 1988, tourism grew exponentially. People wanted to see the ho where movie stars like Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Daryl Hannah, and Dolly Parton had stayed durg their time there. To this day, Steel Magnolias-themed B&Bs and tours are still gog strong. "My sister would love the ia that people are g to her beloved hometown bee of her story," says Harlg. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="28" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="Steel Magnolias playwright Robert Harlg" tle="Steel Magnolias playwright Robert Harlg" loadg="lazy" width="1024" height="683" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="//" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-1fpbif8 e1xqj1sx1">Harlg at an event New York Cy, 2006</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-10ff7h7 e6iqd2">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="30" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But what about Harlg's ultimate goal, to help his sister leave an impact on her son? Harlg's longtime iend Shirley MacLae believ the play was channeled by San, and he tends to agree. "It's my sister's story, I jt happen to be the one who wrote down." The extend fay was reful not to ph that story on San's son, now his mid-30s, leavg , stead, for him to disver on his own time. "He knew she was so special that took the biggt star the world to play her," says Harlg. 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"People were lghg and beg moved by this story of this small town Louisiana," he says. </p><p data-no-id="36" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Speakg over the phone om his Louisiana property, Harlg ments on the large magnolia tree his yard: there's a sgle blossom left, spe beg the middle of July. 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