What bride, when planning her vows, hasn't declared, "My colors are blush and bashful"?

No? Just us?

Thirty-six years ago, those words were being uttered by a promising young thespian named Julia Roberts . Only 21 and with just seven credits to her name when filming began on Steel Magnolias , the Georgia native more than held her own among the likes of Dolly Parton , Sally Field , Olympia Dukakis , Daryl Hannah and Shirley MacLaine in a film about a coterie of woman in a small Southern community and how they deal with the death of one of their own.

Based on a true story, the 1989 tearjerker was meant as a tribute to playwright Robert Harling 's sister Susan , who passed due to complications from diabetes.

Following the success of the 1987 play of the same n

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