# Diane Keaton RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [October 11, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887 "2025-10-11T19:34:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/1 "2025-10-11T19:34:27Z")
> **[Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club'...](https://people.com/diane-keaton-dead-oscar-winning-actress-dies-at-79-exclusive-8603118)** > > Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.' ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/2 "2025-10-11T19:43:50Z")
Well, that sucks. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/3 "2025-10-11T19:45:41Z")
OMG, and I still think of her as 30-something! Very sad. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/4 "2025-10-11T19:46:51Z")
Ah geez…that really sucks. I’m with @wolfpup. She is always much younger in my mind. Her personality always seemed young at heart. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/5 "2025-10-11T19:52:07Z")
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLvKtstNUD0) where Kay tells Michael she is leaving him is one of the best ever. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/6 "2025-10-11T19:56:04Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/7 "2025-10-11T20:04:10Z")
Lah di dah. In the best possible way ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/8 "2025-10-11T20:30:42Z")
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. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/9 "2025-10-11T20:35:10Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > 79 isn’t tremendously old these days. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/10 "2025-10-11T20:45:20Z")
Well, hell. She was only a year older than me, so I might have still had a chance. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/11 "2025-10-11T21:14:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/12 "2025-10-11T21:48:23Z")
I’m still recovering from Robert Redford. Now this. Diane Keaton was smart, funny, and her own person. R.I.P. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/13 "2025-10-11T21:57:19Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > 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! 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. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/14 "2025-10-11T23:49:09Z")
A fascinating tidbit I just learned: Diane Keaton directed the music video for “Heaven is a Place on Earth” by Belinda Carlisle. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/15 "2025-10-12T10:31:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/16 "2025-10-12T10:43:05Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > She was making (basically) one movie a year, and did so for decades, up to 2024. In the 65 years from 1970 to 2025, she made 64 movies. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/17 "2025-10-12T13:06:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/18 "2025-10-12T14:46:20Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > In the 65 years from 1970 to 2025, she made 64 movies 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. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/19 "2025-10-12T16:02:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887/20 "2025-10-12T16:49:44Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Squeezing an extra 10 years in. My apologies. You’re right. I should have said that in the 55 years from 1970 to 2024, she made 64 movies. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diane-keaton-rip/1023887.md?page=2)