"I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years," Ouiser Boudreaux (Shirley MacLaine) hollers in "Steel Magnolias," a movie that has put us in a weepy mood for more than two decades. We've loved every tear. Directed by Herbert Ross ("Funny Lady," "Footloose") and based on a play written by Robert Harling, "Steel Magnolias" opened 25 years ago this week. A force of female friendship, the cast traveled the world to promote the film in 1989. Take a look at the premieres:
Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts and Daryl Hannah
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Nov. 5, 1989, at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City
Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Sally Field, Dolly Parton and Julia Roberts
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Nov. 5, 1989, at the at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City
Sally Field and then-husband Alan Greisman
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Nov. 5, 1989, during the New York premiere party at the Hilton Hotel
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Shirley MacLaine, Barry Diller and Tom Brokaw
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Nov. 5, 1989, during the New York premiere party at the Hilton Hotel
Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson
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Nov. 5, 1989, at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City
Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Shirley MacLaine, writer Robert Harling, Daryl Hannah, Sally Field and Olympia Dukakis
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Nov. 6, 1989, at opening night in Atlanta
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Julia Roberts
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Nov. 5, 1989, during the New York premiere party at the Hilton Hotel
Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah and Dolly Parton
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Nov. 9, 1989, at Cineplex Odeon Cinema in Los Angeles
Kristy McNichol (with a date)
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Nov. 9, 1989, at Cineplex Odeon Cinema in Los Angeles
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Julia Roberts and Oliver Platt
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Nov. 9, 1989, at Cineplex Odeon Cinema in Los Angeles
Richard Dreyfuss
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Nov. 9, 1989, at Cineplex Odeon Cinema in Los Angeles
Brian De Palma and Kate Capshaw
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Nov. 9, 1989, at Cineplex Odeon Cinema in Los Angeles
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Kiefer Sutherland
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Nov. 9, 1989, at Cineplex Odeon Cinema in Los Angeles
Daryl Hannah
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Nov. 9, 1989, at Cineplex Odeon Cinema in Los Angeles
Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah and Olympia Dukakis
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February 1990 promotional shoot at Berkeley Square in London
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