Body Heat Steams Up Theaters -- August 28, 1981

As summer drew to a close, temperatures soared past the boiling point on the big screen as Body Heat opened in theaters on this date in 1981.

The Florida-set modern film noir cast William Hurt as a lawyer-by-day/ladies'-man-by-night who falls hard for femme fatale Kathleen Turner, who gives a scorching performance that made her a skinstant sex symbol.

Kathleen is so incendiary in Body Heat that Hurt famously smashes a glass door to get at her bare body, and then oafishly falls into a plot to murder Turner’s husband.

One look at Kathleen in the raw and audiences around the world understood.

With Body Heat, not only was a star born in the form of Kathleen Turner, but her mouth-wateringly meaty nipples set a new standard in suckability unseen since the heyday of Jane Birkin, and it would not be challenged for a decade -- when Kate Moss and Milla Jovovich first took off their shirts.

And that’s some hot stuff!