Editing Kathleen Turner (section)

===Stardom===
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]]. Film critic [[Pauline Kael]] wrote of her performance as writer Joan Wilder, "Turner knows how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn't know she could; her star performance is exhilarating."<ref>Kael, Pauline. ''5001 Nights at the Movies.'' New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1982, 1984, 1991.  p. 638.</ref> ''Romancing the Stone'' was a surprise hit: she won a [[Golden Globe]] for her role in the film, and it became one of the top-ten-grossing movies of 1984.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1984&p=.htm |title = 1984 domestic grosses |publisher = [[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date = January 22, 2007 |archive-date = November 3, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131103115555/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1984&p=.htm |url-status = live }}</ref> Turner teamed with Douglas and DeVito again the following year for its sequel, ''[[The Jewel of the Nile]]''. Pre-production for the movie was fraught with conflict, because Turner refused to commit to the "terrible" script she had been delivered. When she said no, [[20th Century Fox]] threatened her with a US$25 million [[breach of contract]] lawsuit. Eventually Douglas, also the film's producer, agreed to undertake rewrites on the script to make it more acceptable to Turner, which led to much back-and-forth between the two as the script was retooled right up to when shooting started in [[Fez, Morocco]].<ref name="David Marchese">{{cite news |url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/kathleen-turner-in-conversation.html |title=In Conversation: Kathleen Turner |first=David |last=Marchese |work=Vulture.com |date=2018-08-07 |access-date=2018-08-09 |archive-date=2018-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809021229/http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/kathleen-turner-in-conversation.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Several months before ''Jewel'', Turner starred in ''[[Prizzi's Honor]]'' with [[Jack Nicholson]], winning a second [[Golden Globe]] award, and later starred in ''[[Peggy Sue Got Married]]'', which co-starred [[Nicolas Cage]]. For ''Peggy Sue'', she received the award for [[National Board of Review Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] from the U.S. [[National Board of Review of Motion Pictures]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1986/ |title=1986 Award Winners |date=2016 |publisher=[[National Board of Review of Motion Pictures]] |access-date=October 31, 2016 |archive-date=December 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207025144/http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1986/ |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as an [[Academy Award]] nomination for Best Actress.

In 1988's toon-noir ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'', she was the speaking voice of cartoon ''[[femme fatale]]'' [[Jessica Rabbit]], intoning the famous line, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." Her uncredited, sultry performance was acclaimed as "the kind of sexpot ball-breaker she was made for".<ref>"Kathleen Turner", Thomson, David. ''The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.'' New York: [[Alfred A. Knopf]], 1975, 1980, 1994, 2002, p. 884.</ref> ([[Amy Irving]] provided Jessica Rabbit's singing voice in the scene in which the character first appears in the movie.) That same year, Turner also appeared in ''[[Switching Channels]]'', which was a loose remake of the 1940 hit film ''[[His Girl Friday]]''; this, in turn, was a loose remake of the [[Ben Hecht]]-[[Charles MacArthur]] comedy ''[[The Front Page]]''.<ref>{{cite web |work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/04/movies/film-turner-in-switching-channels.html |title=Film: Turner in ''Switching Channels'' |first=Vincent |last=Canby |author-link=Vincent Canby |date=March 4, 1988}}</ref>

Turner was the subject of the 1986 song [[Emotional (Falco album)|"The Kiss of Kathleen Turner"]] by Austrian techno-pop singer [[Falco (musician)|Falco]]. In 1989, Turner teamed with Douglas and DeVito for a third time, in ''[[The War of the Roses (film)|The War of the Roses]]'', but this time as Douglas's disillusioned wife, with DeVito in the role of a divorce attorney who told their shared story. ''[[The New York Times]]'' praised the trio, saying that "Mr. Douglas and Ms. Turner have never been more comfortable a team ... each of them is at his or her comic best when being as awful as both are required to be here ... [Kathleen Turner is] evilly enchanting."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/08/movies/review-film-the-war-of-the-roses.html |date=December 8, 1989 |title=Review/Film; ''War of the Roses'' |first=Janet |last=Maslin |author-link=Janet Maslin |work=The New York Times |access-date=February 9, 2019}}</ref> In that film, Turner played a former gymnast and, as in other roles, did many of her own stunts. (She broke her nose two years later, filming 1991's ''[[V.I. Warshawski (film)|V.I. Warshawski]]''.)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.curledup.com/sendrose.htm |title=Book review: Kathleen Turner's *Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles* |publisher=Curledup.com |date=January 27, 2007 |access-date=December 25, 2010 |archive-date=June 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612071442/http://www.curledup.com/sendrose.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/kathleen_turner/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904140627/http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/kathleen_turner/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |title=Kathleen Turner &#124; MovieMaker Magazine |publisher=Moviemaker.com |date=June 18, 2007 |access-date=December 25, 2010 }}</ref>