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Robert Harling

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Robert M. Harling III is an American writer, producer and film director.

Occupation: writer, film producer, film director, screenwriter
Citizenship: United States
Born: November 12, 1951

Soapdishknown for Steel Magnoliasknown for The First Wives Clubknown for The Evening Starknown for Laws of Attractionknown for Steel Magnoliasknown for Steel Magnoliasknown for Northwestern State Universityeducated at Tulane University Law Schooleducated at United Statescountry of citizenship

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Robert M. Harling III (born November 12, 1951) is an American writer, producer and film director.

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Early life

Harling was born in 1951 in Dothan, Alabama, one of three children of Robert M. Harling Jr (1923–2019) and Margaret Jones Harling (1923–2013). He graduated from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana and obtained a Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. While in law school, he sang in a band which performed in New Orleans on weekends.

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Robert M. Harling III is an American writer, producer and film director.

Occupation: writer, film producer, film director, screenwriter
Citizenship: United States
Born: November 12, 1951

Soapdishknown for Steel Magnoliasknown for The First Wives Clubknown for The Evening Starknown for Laws of Attractionknown for Steel Magnoliasknown for Steel Magnoliasknown for Northwestern State Universityeducated at Tulane University Law Schooleducated at United Statescountry of citizenship

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Soapdish Steel Magnolias The First Wives Club The Evening Star Laws of Attraction Steel Magnolias Steel Magnolias Northwestern State University Tulane University Law School United States

Article

Robert M. Harling III (born November 12, 1951) is an American writer, producer and film director.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Harling was born in 1951 in Dothan, Alabama, one of three children of Robert M. Harling Jr (1923–2019) and Margaret Jones Harling (1923–2013). He graduated from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana and obtained a Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. While in law school, he sang in a band which performed in New Orleans on weekends.

Career

Following graduation from law school, Harling moved to New York to pursue an acting career. He auditioned for bit parts in plays and television commercials as well as working as a ticket seller for Broadway shows.

After the death of his younger sister, Susan, in 1985 due to diabetes, Harling wrote a short story and adapted it into the play Steel Magnolias, which was produced off-Broadway in 1987 to great acclaim and was translated into 17 languages.

Harling also wrote the screenplay for the film version of the play that was produced in 1989. He played a small role in the film as a minister.

Harling wrote more screenplays: Soapdish (1991), The First Wives Club (1996), and Laws of Attraction (2004); he also worked as an uncredited script doctor on a number of films. Harling also wrote and directed the sequel to Terms of Endearment titled The Evening Star (1996).

In the spring of 2012, he served as writer and producer of the TV show GCB. In the same year, it was reported that Harling was adapting Soapdish into a musical.

Personal life

He is Presbyterian and openly gay. He owns the Oaklawn Plantation in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Filmography

Writer

1989 Steel Magnolias

1990 Steel Magnolias (TV pilot)

1991 Soapdish

1992 Coiffure pour dames

1996 The First Wives Club

1996 The Evening Star

2004 Laws of Attraction

2012 GCB

Producer

1997 A Smile Like Yours

2012 GCB

Director

1996 The Evening Star

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