STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton spent some time on Staten Island in her younger days, filming scenes for the legendary 1972 classic, \u201cThe Godfather.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keaton\u2019s character, Kay Adams-Corleone, is one of the few main female characters to grace the silver screen in the film. <\/p>\n
Her scene in the beginning of the film is one to remember: Sitting at a table with Al Pacino\u2019s character, Michael Corleone, she is regaled the tale of Vito Corleone\u2019s mobster cruelty. <\/p>\n
The scene, just shy of a minute and a half long, has been replayed on YouTube thousands upon thousands of times. <\/p>\n
In the comments, many users offered their condolences for Keaton. <\/p>\n
The actress passed away Saturday at the age of 79. <\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Fire Department, according People Magazine<\/a>, transported a 79-year-old woman to a hospital in the area after they responded to the actress\u2019s abode Saturday morning. <\/p>\n Her cause of death is not known.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Keaton told the outlet the following<\/a>: \u201cThere are no further details available at this time, and her family has asked for privacy in this moment of great sadness.\u201d <\/p>\n The unexpected news was met with shock around the world<\/a>. Keaton was the kind of actor who helped make films iconic and timeless, from her \u201cLa-dee-da, la-dee-da\u201d phrasing as Annie Hall, bedecked in that necktie, bowler hat, vest and khakis, to her heartbreaking turn as Kay Adams, the woman unfortunate enough to join the Corleone family.<\/p>\n She played a businessperson who unexpectedly inherits an infant in \u201cBaby Boom,\u201d the mother of the bride in the beloved remake of \u201cFather of the Bride,\u201d a newly single woman in \u201cFirst Wives Club,\u201d and a divorced playwright who gets involved with Jack Nicholson\u2019s music executive in \u201cSomething\u2019s Gotta Give.\u201d<\/p>\n Keaton won her first Oscar for \u201cAnnie Hall\u201d and would go on to be nominated three more times, for \u201cReds,\u201d \u201cMarvin\u2019s Room\u201d and \u201cSomething\u2019s Gotta Give.\u201d<\/p>\n Keaton was born Diane Hall in January 1946 in Los Angeles, though her family was not part of the film industry she would find herself in. Her mother was a homemaker and photographer, and her father was in real estate and civil engineering.<\/p>\n Keaton was drawn to theater and singing while in school in Santa Ana, Calif., and she dropped out of college after a year to make a go of it in Manhattan. Actors\u2019 Equity already had a Diane Hall in their ranks, and she took Keaton, her mother\u2019s maiden name, as her own.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton spent some time on Staten Island in her younger days,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}