‘Too tall and too ‘kooky’” – that was a casting director’s verdict on Diane Keaton in the late 1960s. Either she was ahead of the curve or she bent the world gently to her will, but within a few years she was a star.
Keaton, who has died aged 79, appeared in both the year-long stage run and the film adaptation of the comedy Play It Again, Sam (1972). This began her long association – spanning one play, eight movies, a romance and more than half a century of friendship – with its author, Woody Allen. He later gave her what became her signature role in Annie Hall (1977), for which she won the best actress Oscar.
