Barbara Turner

Birth : 1936-07-14, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Death : 2016-04-05

History

Gloria Rose "Barbara" Turner (July 14, 1936 – April 5, 2016) was an American screenwriter and actress.

Movies

Hemingway & Gellhorn
Executive Producer
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Writer
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Margot at the Wedding
Thanks
Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of support. What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.
The Company
Screenplay
Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.
The Company
Writer
Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.
Pollock
Screenplay
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Sharing the Secret
Writer
A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.
Georgia
Producer
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing singing.
Georgia
Screenplay
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing singing.
Out of Darkness
Writer
Diana Ross dramatizes multiple personality disorder.
Those Secrets
Writer
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Eye on the Sparrow
Producer
True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.
Eye on the Sparrow
Screenplay
True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.
Sessions
Supervising Producer
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy "sessions". Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and "straight" man with whom she falls in love.
Sessions
Writer
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy "sessions". Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and "straight" man with whom she falls in love.
Cujo
Screenplay
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Freedom
Associate Producer
Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.
Freedom
Writer
Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.
The War Between the Tates
Writer
A college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair with one of his students.
The Dark Side of Innocence
Writer
A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly resents her walking out on the family, and her mother, whose own beliefs about marriage and family are jolted by her daughter's divorce.
Widow
Teleplay
A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.
The Affair
Writer
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
Petulia
Adaptation
An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.
Deathwatch
Writer
Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.
Nightmare in Chicago
Bernadette Wells
The story of a serial killer known as "Georgie Porgie." The Chicago turnpike is threatened over a three-day period as the police try to catch him by blocking the whole area.
Operation Eichmann
Sara
Drama about the life Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer responsible for the deaths of countless Jewish people during World War II.
Wink of an Eye
Judy Carlton
A chemist in a perfume factory (Jonathan Kidd) seems to have killed his wife, cut her up, and stuck her remains in the freezer.
Monster from Green Hell
Lorna Lorentz
A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. The two astrobiologists in charge of the test mount an expedition to the Darkest Continent to retrieve their experiment, only to find the wasps have grown to giant size which are panicking all forms of life as they quest for food.
Two-Gun Lady
Jenny Ivers
A young woman teaches herself to become a sharpshooter so she can hunt down the three men who murdered her parents. She finds a sheriff who is willing to help her track them down.