“Unlike anyone the planet has experienced or is unlikely to ever see again, her face and laugh illuminated any space she entered,” Allen wrote in the piece.
The director recalled their first meeting at an audition for his 1969 play “Play It Again, Sam” at the Morosco Theatre. Keaton, fresh from Orange County and working as a coat check girl while performing in “Hair,” had been recommended by acting teacher Sandy Meisner.
“If Huckleberry Finn was a gorgeous young woman, he’d be Keaton,” Allen remembered thinking upon first seeing her.
The pair initially struggled to connect during the first week of rehearsals. “She was shy, I was shy, and with two shy people things can get pretty dull,…
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