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The movie proved to be a critical and commercial hit, and Diane Keaton went on to win an Academy Award for her role. She played the title character, a neurotic, intelligent, occasionally childlike and frustratingly inaccessible woman whose naive charm is as appealing to the audience as it is to Allen’s character. For Keaton, this represented a massive opportunity to grow. Moving away from the broad comedies he’d been directing up to this point, here was a far more dramatic work that delved into the realities of New York life (and life in general) in the late 1970s, viewed through the perspective of Allen’s eccentric persona. For Woody Allen, this was a significant turning point in his career as a filmmaker.
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It was in 1977 that their collaboration reached its highest point with Annie Hall. The chemistry between the two was undeniable, and Keaton went on play similar roles in Allen’s science fiction comedy Sleeper (1973), and his comedic account of Tsarist Russia, Love and Death (1975). While the film was primarily led by Allen, a neurotic publisher dependent on romantic advice from an apparition of Humphrey Bogart, Keaton was striking as the equally neurotic, cerebral and altogether quirky woman he ends up falling in love with. This relationship eventually ended, but the two remained friends and Keaton co-starred alongside Allen in the 1972 film version of the same play. Keaton met Allen while auditioning for his stage play, Play It Again, Sam, in 1969 and a relationship soon commenced.
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Her solution makes for one of the series most emotionally powerful moments.īut, more than for the Godfather films, Diane Keaton is recognised for her long-running collaboration with her former partner, Woody Allen.
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But when she returned to the series in The Godfather Part II (1974), Keaton went even further, presenting a convincing image of a woman desperate to leave the husband she despised, whilst also remaining acutely aware that his warped moral code would not allow him to let her go. In Keaton’s hands, Kay became a complex character torn between ethics, love and pure denial.
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Playing the part of Kay Adams, girlfriend to returned WWII veteran, Michael Corleone, Keaton used her limited screen time to present audiences with the film’s only voice of conscience as Corleone is dragged into the criminal underworld he has always despised. Well, while Keaton had appeared in films prior to the release of The Godfather (1972), it would be fair to say that Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece was the film for which she first became recognised. Keaton’s career path, which has taken her from working with the likes of Coppola and Woody Allen, to an array of classic mainstream comedies in the 1990s, has ensured that she holds a warm place in the hearts of several generations of film-goers. There are few who would argue that Diane Keaton, who turns 70 today, 5 January, 2016, is one of the defining American actresses of her generation.