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Question about Steel Magnolias (The movie OR the play)?

I just want to have a brief description of the plot and a description of the personalities of all the female main characters.

Thanks!

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  • Luke
    Lv 5
    7 years ago
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    Annelle Dupuy (Daryl Hannah), a recent beauty school graduate, is hired by Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton) to work in her home-based beauty salon. M'Lynn Eatenton (Sally Field), a good friend of Truvy's, and her daughter, Shelby (Julia Roberts), arrive at Truvy's to prepare for Shelby's wedding, which is taking place later that day. Also arriving at the salon are Ouiser (pronounced "Weezer" or "Weeza") Boudreaux (Shirley MacLaine), a grouchy, two-time widow (who claims that she is not crazy, she's just been in a very bad mood for 40 years), and Clairee Belcher (Olympia Dukakis), also a widow, who is cheerful and enjoys taking cracks at Ouiser whenever possible, but also loves Ouiser "more than her luggage". While having her hair done for the wedding, Shelby, who has type one diabetes, falls into a state of hypoglycemia, but she recovers quickly with some orange juice provided by her mother and the other women in the salon.

    Characters i think are done :)

    Steel Magnolias (1989 film): is an American comedy-drama directed by Herbert Ross; adapted by Robert Harling from the Steel Magnolias (1987 play) also by Harling both about the bond among a group of women surrounding the family experience with the death of playwright's sister, Susan Harling Robinson in 1985 .

    As in the 1987 play, the title suggests the main female characters can be both as delicate as the magnolia, and as tough as steel.

    And that is mostly the plot as is.

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