A leading lady of 1980s cinema, Kathleen Turner earned comparisons to 1940s femme fatales like Barbara Stanwyck for sensuous, aggressive roles in “Body Heat” (1981), “Prizzi’s Honor” (1985) and “The War of the Roses” (1989). When the smoky-voiced actress was not manipulating male characters with her on-screen sultry ways, she proved to be quite a comedienne, as well, volleying quips with Michael Douglas in the jungle adventure film “Romancing the Stone” (1984) and inhabiting an 18-year-old body in “Peggy Sue Got Married” (1986). She received a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in the early