Diane Keaton, star of Annie Hall and The Godfather dies

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall, The Godfather films and Father of the Bride, whose quirky, vibrant mode and extent made her 1 of the astir singular actors of a generation, has died. She was 79.

People Magazine reported connected Saturday that she died successful California with loved ones, citing a household spokesperson. No different details were instantly available, and representatives for Keaton did not instantly respond to inquiries from The Associated Press.

The unexpected quality was met with daze astir the world.

“She was hilarious, a implicit original, and wholly without guile, oregon immoderate of the competitiveness 1 would person expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!,” Bette Midler said successful a station connected Instagram. She and Keaton co-starred successful The First Wives Club.

Her star-making performances successful the 1970s, galore of which were successful Woody Allen films, were not a flash successful the cookware either, and she would proceed to charm caller generations for decades.

She played a businessperson who unexpectedly inherits an babe successful Baby Boom, the parent of the bride successful the beloved remake of Father of the Bride, a recently single woman successful The First Wives Club, and a divorced playwright who gets progressive with Jack Nicholson’s euphony enforcement successful Something’s Gotta Give.

“She was hilarious, a implicit original, and wholly without guile, oregon immoderate of the competitiveness 1 would person expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!,” Bette Midler

Keaton won an Oscar for Annie Hall successful 1978 and would spell connected to beryllium nominated three much times, for Reds, Marvin’s Room and Something’s Gotta Give.

Keaton was calved Diane Hall successful January 1946 successful Los Angeles and was drawn to theatre and singing while successful school.

She dropped retired of assemblage aft a year to marque a spell of it successful Manhattan. Actors’ Equity already had a Diane Hall successful their ranks, and she took Keaton, her mother’s maiden name, arsenic her own.

She started connected the stage arsenic an understudy successful the Broadway accumulation of Hair, and successful Allen’s Play It Again, Sam successful 1968, for which she would person a Tony nomination.

Oscar winners airs with their statuettes astatine the Academy Awards presumption successful Los Angeles, April 3, 1978, from left: Richard Dreyfuss, champion histrion for “The Goodbye Girl”; Charles H. Joffe, champion representation for “Annie Hall”; Diane Keaton, champion histrion for “Annie Hall”; presenter Jack Nicholson, and shaper Jack Rollins of United Artists. Photo: AAP/ File

Keaton made her movie debut successful the 1970 romanticist drama Lovers and Other Strangers, but her large breakthrough would travel a fewer years aboriginal when she was formed successful Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, which won champion representation and became 1 of the astir beloved films of each time.

The 1970s were an incredibly fruitful clip for Keaton, thanks successful portion to her ongoing collaboration with Allen successful some comedic and melodramatic roles. She appeared successful Sleeper, Love and Death, Interiors, Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery and the movie version of Play it Again, Sam.

Allen gave Keaton 1 of her astir iconic roles successful Annie Hall, the infectious woman from Chippewa Falls whom Allen’s Alvy Singer cannot get over. The movie is considered 1 of the large romanticist comedies of each time, with Keaton’s eccentric, self-deprecating Annie astatine its heart.

In the New York Times, professional Vincent Canby wrote, “As Annie Hall, Miss Keaton emerges arsenic Woody Allen’s Liv Ullman. His camera finds quality and affectional resources that somehow flight the announcement of different directors. Her Annie Hall is simply a marvellous nut”.

Keaton and Allen were besides successful a romanticist narration from astir 1968, when she met him while auditioning for his play, until astir 1974. Afterwards, they remained collaborators and friends.

“He was so hip, with his thick glasses and chill suits,” Keaton wrote successful her memoir.

“But it was his mode that got me, his way of gesturing, his hands, his coughing and looking down successful a self-deprecating way while helium told jokes.”

She was besides romantically linked to Al Pacino, who played her hubby successful The Godfather, and Warren Beatty, who directed her and with whom she co-starred successful Reds. She ne'er joined but did follow two children when she was successful her 50s: a daughter, Dexter, and a son, Duke.

“I figured the lone way to realise my number-one imagination of becoming an existent Broadway philharmonic drama star was to stay an adoring daughter. Loving a man, a man, and becoming a wife, would person to beryllium enactment aside,” she wrote successful the memoir.

“The names changed, from Dave to Woody, then Warren, and yet Al. Could I person made a lasting committedness to them? Hard to say. Subconsciously, I indispensable person known it could ne'er work, and due to the fact that of this, they’d ne'er get successful the way of achieving my dreams.”

In the remake of Father of the Bride, Keaton and Steve Martin played the flustered parents of the bride, which would go a large deed and spawn a sequel.

In Something’s Gotta Give successful 2003, she begins a narration with a playboy womaniser, played by Jack Nicholson, while besides being pursued by a younger doctor, played by Keanu Reeves.

Her quality Erica Barry, with her beauteous Hamptons location and ivory outfit, was a cardinal inspiration for the caller coastal grandma manner trend. It earned her what would beryllium her past Oscar nomination, and, later, she’d telephone it her favourite film.

Keaton continued working steadily passim the 2000s, with notable roles successful The Family Stone, arsenic a dying matriarch reluctant to springiness her ringing to her son, successful Morning Glory, arsenic a greeting quality anchor, and successful the Book Club films.