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Legendary actress Diane Keaton has sadly died at the age of 79<\/a>, but she won’t be forgotten. I first remember seeing Keaton in “The Godfather” films, where she played Michael Corleone’s (Al Pacino) girlfriend-to-wife-to-ex, Kay Adams-Corleone. “The Godfather” was only her second feature credit; she’d come up on Broadway in the 1960s, appearing in “Hair” and Allen’s “Play It Again, Sam” and winning a Tony award for the latter.<\/p>\n As a comedy and stage actress, Keaton hadn’t expected to act in a movie like “The Godfather.” The only other feature film she’d been in before was the romcom “Lovers and Other Strangers,” as different from “The Godfather” as could be. She thought of herself as a comedy actress and had never even heard of Mario Puzo’s original novel “The Godfather” before deciding to audition.<\/p>\n Speaking to People<\/a> for the movie’s 50th anniversary in 2022, Keaton recalled how it was just one of many auditions that her younger self did. And yet, it changed her life:<\/p>\n “I think the kindest thing that someone’s ever done for me… is that I got cast to be in ‘The Godfather’ and I didn’t even read it. I didn’t know a single thing. I just was going around auditioning. I think that was amazing for me. And then I had to kind of read the book.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n