Background
He was born in 1951 in Dothan, Alabama, one of three children of Robert M. Harling, Junior., and Margaret Jones Harling (1923-2013).
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Robert Harling
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He graduated from Northwestern State University in his hometown and obtained a law degree from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Career
While in law school, he sang in a band which performed in New Orleans on weekends. He moved to New York City in 1978 and worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken and sold tickets on Broadway to support himself. He auditioned for acting jobs and shot television commercials about flashlights.
lieutenant has been translated in seventeen languages, including Japanese, Chinese, French, Swedish, Spanish, Italian.
Shortly after, he went on to adapt the screenplay for the film version of the play that was produced in 1989 starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts. He played a small role in the film as a minister.
He went on to write more screenplays, Soapdish (1991), The First Wives Club (1996), and Laws of Attraction (2004), as well as an uncredited script doctor on a number of films. More recently he served as writer and producer of the television show Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath which ran briefly on American Broadcasting Company-television He also wrote and directed the sequel to Terms of Endearment titled The Evening Star (1996).
He is currently adapting Soapdish into a musical.
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