The marvellous Miss Kathleen Turner celebrates her 70th birthday today! We've adored her since she triumphantly turned the Steve Martin movie The Man With Two Brains from, well, a Steve Martin movie into something much, much more memorable. Even Romancing the Stone was bearable mainly because she was in it... But it is for one magnificent character we love her the most.
Here is Miss Turner in (probably) her finest, and certainly most camp, role as "Beverly" in John Waters' Serial Mom, tormenting poor "Dottie Hinkle" (Mink Stole)...
Miss Turner has lately returned to her original great love, the stage. And here she is, singing in the play Mother Courage:
Unfortunately her Mother Courage never crossed the pond, and each time she's been in the West End we missed her - either in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? or Bakersfield Mist. Hopefully at some point we'll see her in a production - Serial Mom - the Musical, perhaps?!
Mary Kathleen Turner (born 19th June 1954)
"Body Heat" 1981! Fantastic actress! xoxo
ReplyDeleteNever saw that film... Jx
DeleteI have ALWAYS LOVED Kathleen Turner. The first thing I saw her in was Jewel on the Nile. But where I fell in love with her was when she did War of the Roses, of course her turn in Serial mom was fabulous. She certainly has not aged the best but I still adore her, and that Jack Daniels voice.
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She's just fantabulosa! Jx
DeleteRomancing the Stone was my introduction to Kathleen Turner (an end of term school trip to the cinema), and I've loved her in Jewel of the Nile, War of the Roses, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Friends (as Chandler's dad, Charles Bing) and, of course, Serial Mom!
ReplyDeleteAn awful lot of people first encountered her in Romancing the Stone. I remember seeing it, but it wasn't really my sort of thing. The Man With Two Brains, however, was an absolute hoot!! Jx
DeleteShe raises everyone's game! Another huge fan of War of the Roses here!
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Can't remember if I've seen that one either - I was in the midst of some bad relationship times back in 1989 when it was released, and if it was on telly, I don't remember it. Jx
DeleteLove her! I think my favorite was War of the Roses.
ReplyDeleteJoin Ms Scarlet's fan club, Mitch! Jx
Delete'The most normal, nicest woman you will ever find' That clip still makes me roar with laughter.
ReplyDeleteHappy 70th Kathleen Turner. We adore you..
She does appear to be a down-to-earth character [although she's had more than her fair share of problems that led her into some difficult situations over the years]. All hail! Jx
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