真实故事
这部剧本的另一个点,或许不知道仍不打紧。但也是有必要顺带一提,才算是本片30年的一个纪念。它最初是作者劳勃哈林(Robert Harling)根据自己已故姊姊的故事,所写成的舞台剧剧本。——如果知道这个背景,有意思的地方在于,从这里可以看出作者相当天才,用六个女人上美容院的喜剧来贯穿(剧场版无男性,场景始终是美容院)。虽然这是悲喜剧,但在形式上还是得以喜剧来说它。不但写了家里,还写了家乡的人情世故,且把重点放在女人(們)身上。
作品中的重要情节,符合劳勃哈林家里的真实状况。哈林的姐姐苏珊罹患糖尿病,且产下一子,以及母亲捐一枚肾脏给女儿,都是真的。包括姐姐后来病故,也是真的。只是真实状况是病逝于一个后续的(小?)手术中。
以下摘自2017年的网络资料:
Harling grew up in Natchitoches, Louisiana, the oldest settlement from the Louisiana Purchase, with two younger siblings. He wrote the play after his sister, Susan, died from complications of type 1 diabetes. He'd been in New York for eight years at that point, a period during which Susan had married and decided to start a family, despite doctors' concerns that doing so could seriously jeopardize her health. Shortly after giving birth to a baby boy in 1983, Susan's circulatory system and kidneys began to fail. A kidney transplant from her mother, and dialysis, did little to help. She died during minor surgery in 1985, at the age of 33. Afraid his two-year-old nephew would never know who his mother was, Harling started writing. "All I wanted to do was have somebody remember her," he says.(Maria Carter撰述)