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\n Related: <\/span>‘The First Wives Club’ Cast: Where Are the Film\u2019s Stars Now?<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tThe First Wives Club brought together three comedic powerhouses for one unforgettable story about friendship, love and finding purpose. The 1996 film starred Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton as a trio of friends mourning the loss of pal Cynthia (Stockard Channing), who died by suicide after her ex-husband married a much-younger mistress. Additionally, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cShe was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star,\u201d Midler remembered. \u201cWhat you saw was who she was\u2026oh, la, lala!\u201d<\/p>\n
The duo \u2014 along with Goldie Hawn<\/strong> \u2013 played former college best friends who band together against their estranged husbands in the 1996 film adaptation of Olivia Goldsmith<\/strong>\u2019s 1992 novel of the same name.<\/p>\nThe comedy blockbuster made nearly $200 million at the box office, giving all three leading ladies their highest-grossing project of the 1990s up to that point.<\/p>\n
There was often talk of a sequel or spinoff of some kind in the ensuing decades \u2014 including a 2015 movie with Netflix called Divanation that would have cast the trio as a formerly popular singing group reuniting 30 years after a contentious breakup, according to Deadline<\/a>. Unfortunately, development on the project never got off the ground and it was later abandoned entirely.<\/p>\nKeaton told Pride Source<\/a> that she would have loved to work with Hawn and Midler again on The First Wives Club 2, and was disappointed it never came about.<\/p>\n![\"MSDFIWI_PA007](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MSDFIWI_PA007-bette-midler-tribute-to-diane-keaton-goldie-hawn-e1760214000512.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
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\n Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler in \u201cFirst Wives Club.\u201d<\/span> Paramount \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cOf course I\u2019m interested, but it never happened,\u201d she noted. \u201cAnd we tried, in a way, the girls, but we never got a good script and I don\u2019t know why and now it\u2019s sort of like, it\u2019s over, right? No one\u2019s gonna have us get in a movie together, the three of us. But I love that movie, and I love them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keaton\u2019s death drew tributes from many of her costars and famous friends on Saturday. Kimberly Williams-Paisley<\/strong> \u2014 who played Keaton and Steve Martin<\/strong>\u2019s onscreen daughter in 1991\u2019s Father of the Bride and its 1995 sequel \u2014 wrote that working with the Hollywood icon as \u201cone of the highlights of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cYou are one of a kind, and it was thrilling to be in your orbit for a time,\u201d Williams-Paisley, 54, wrote via Instagram<\/a>. \u201cThank you for your kindness, your generosity, your talent, and above all, your laughter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nThank You!<\/h3>\n
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Elizabeth Perkins<\/strong> remembered Keaton as \u201ca national treasure\u201d in her own Instagram<\/a> tribute on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The comedy blockbuster made nearly $200 million at the box office, giving all three leading ladies their highest-grossing project of the 1990s up to that point.<\/p>\n
There was often talk of a sequel or spinoff of some kind in the ensuing decades \u2014 including a 2015 movie with Netflix called Divanation that would have cast the trio as a formerly popular singing group reuniting 30 years after a contentious breakup, according to Deadline<\/a>. Unfortunately, development on the project never got off the ground and it was later abandoned entirely.<\/p>\n Keaton told Pride Source<\/a> that she would have loved to work with Hawn and Midler again on The First Wives Club 2, and was disappointed it never came about.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course I\u2019m interested, but it never happened,\u201d she noted. \u201cAnd we tried, in a way, the girls, but we never got a good script and I don\u2019t know why and now it\u2019s sort of like, it\u2019s over, right? No one\u2019s gonna have us get in a movie together, the three of us. But I love that movie, and I love them.\u201d<\/p>\n Keaton\u2019s death drew tributes from many of her costars and famous friends on Saturday. Kimberly Williams-Paisley<\/strong> \u2014 who played Keaton and Steve Martin<\/strong>\u2019s onscreen daughter in 1991\u2019s Father of the Bride and its 1995 sequel \u2014 wrote that working with the Hollywood icon as \u201cone of the highlights of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou are one of a kind, and it was thrilling to be in your orbit for a time,\u201d Williams-Paisley, 54, wrote via Instagram<\/a>. \u201cThank you for your kindness, your generosity, your talent, and above all, your laughter.\u201d<\/p>\n You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Elizabeth Perkins<\/strong> remembered Keaton as \u201ca national treasure\u201d in her own Instagram<\/a> tribute on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler in \u201cFirst Wives Club.\u201d<\/span> Paramount \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/p>\nThank You!<\/h3>\n
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