Steel Magnolias is set in a small-town beauty parlor ... there are eccentric characters galore in this touching play. The play explores the lives of ordinary women going through situations that ...

Daryl Hannah was pitch perfect as the shy cosmetologist-in-training Annelle Dupuy-DeSoto in Herbert Ross' Steel Magnolias ... Ross' insistence she could not play Annelle in the 1989 film.

When Steel Magnolias became an instant cinema classic ... The Herbert Ross-directed comedy-drama, adapted by Robert Harling from his play of the same name, follows a group of Southern women ...