Well, that sucks.
OMG, and I still think of her as 30-something! Very sad.
Ah geez…that really sucks.
I’m with @wolfpup. She is always much younger in my mind. Her personality always seemed young at heart.
Man, this is really a shocker. I hadn’t heard anything about her being ill; 79 isn’t tremendously old these days.
The scene from Godfather Part II where Kay tells Michael she is leaving him is one of the best ever.
In part I think because we associate her with some of her great early films. At the time of Woody Allen’s Love and Death, she was around 29. At the time of Annie Hall, she was around 31. How time moves on and ravages all of us!
Lah di dah. In the best possible way
I always think of that Godfather scene when I think of her, an outstanding actress. She leaves behind a great legacy.
And damn it sucks that my generation of great people are falling by the wayside like every week. 
Sorta. Per SSA’s actuarial tables at that point about 1/3rd of women will be dead, and 2/3rds still alive. For men it’s roughly 50/50. Some people certainly live to much greater ages, but it’s a mistake to conflate “some few people” with “darn near everyone”.
To be sure, the dead at any age tend to be drawn more heavily from the less educated, less healthy, & less wealthy; the folks’ who’ve lived rougher lives. I recall nothing of her personal life, but plenty of celebs have things like substance problems, etc., that are not longevity-affirming moves.
Luck has a big factor too, whether that’s luck of cancer, luck of genetics, or luck of encountering a very bad driver.
Well, hell. She was only a year older than me, so I might have still had a chance.
I remember my best friend in High School going on his first “real” date, and seeing Annie Hall. He was convinced that Annie Hall was going to be “their movie”. He was definitely smittened.
I’m still recovering from Robert Redford. Now this. Diane Keaton was smart, funny, and her own person. R.I.P.
That does make sense. But it’s also true that she had a sort of ‘second wind’ in a number of comedies like The First Wives Club and Something’s Gotta Give—-and she always seemed younger than her age in those.
She was making (basically) one movie a year, and did so for decades, up to 2024.
Condolences to her family and friends.
A fascinating tidbit I just learned: Diane Keaton directed the music video for “Heaven is a Place on Earth” by Belinda Carlisle.
Mildly interesting fact: Diane Keaton and Michael Keaton both chose the last name Keaton for their stage names. They did it because SAG (the Screen Actors Guild) asks its members to not have the same name as another member. Diane Keaton chose to use her mother’s maiden name. Michael Keaton chose a random name out of the telephone book.
In the 65 years from 1970 to 2025, she made 64 movies.
I remember a possibly apocryphal quote from Woody Allen when someone on set had a complaint about her–”Leave her alone. She’s a fucking genius.” Love and Death is still a masterpiece.
Squeezing an extra 10 years in. That is talent.
I was 16 or 17 when I saw Looking for Mr Goodbar. She played her part masterfully but that ending gave me a nightmare. Turned out not to be a good date movie.
I have to say, given the limited screentime she had as Kay Corleone, she definitely made an intense, memorable impact. Especially since the Kay character in the book “The Godfather” was such a forgettable doormat.
My apologies. You’re right. I should have said that in the 55 years from 1970 to 2024, she made 64 movies.