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After some work on New York stages and a brief stint on the NBC soap The Doctors, Kathleen Turner made her stunning movie debut as femme fatale Matty Walker in Body Heat, the sweat-drenched, sex ...
Kathleen Turner reveals challenges of shooting her first movie "Body Heat" as the steamy neo-noir thriller turns 40.
Body Heat is a 1981 American neo-noir [1] [2] erotic thriller film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan in his directorial debut. It stars William Hurt and Kathleen Turner , featuring Richard Crenna , Ted Danson , J. A. Preston and Mickey Rourke .
After Body Heat, Turner steered away from femme fatale roles to "prevent typecasting" and "because femme fatale roles had a shelf-life". Consequently, her first project after this was the 1983 comedy The Man With Two Brains. Turner co-starred in Romancing the Stone with Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito.
Among the young unknown actresses who auditioned, but did not receive a part, was Kathleen Turner. However while Turner was in Los Angeles to audition for Marbles she also managed to secure an audition for Body Heat, which turned her into a star. [14] The women auditioned for the female leads were narrowed to eight and were sent to wrestling ...
Turner, whose acting career began in the 1970s, first achieved popular notice and critical acclaim as femme fatale Mattie Walker in “Body Heat,” the 1981 noir film in which she starred ...
In 1979, she was tapped to replace Kathleen Turner as Nola Dancy Aldrich on The Doctors. (She later appeared opposite Turner in the 1981 film Body Heat in a plot that addressed similarities in their appearance.) For much of her stint, she was the show's leading lady, but left the show in July 1982 on a maternity leave, escorted off the show by ...
Turner will portray Madame Armfeldt in the musical tribute to composer Stephen Sondheim. Screen and stage star Kathleen Turner will lead the cast of "A Little Night Music" when it debuts at The ...