By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, October 11, 2025 at 8:33:00 p.m. edt
“(ny times) But her talent for sophisticated farce didn’t go to waste. Before Something’s Gotta Give, she appeared in three other comedies directed by Nancy Meyers: Baby Boom (1987), opposite Sam Shepard, as a big-city executive who inherits a baby and moves to Vermont; and Father of the Bride (1991) and its 1995 sequel, opposite Steve Martin.
“Speaking at a comedy festival in Aspen, Colo., in 2004, Ms. Meyers compared Ms. Keaton’s comedic skills to those of two big stars of an earlier generation, Katharine Hepburn and Jean Arthur. And Mr. Allen himself went even further. 'My opinion is that with the exception of Judy Holliday, she’s the finest screen comedienne we’ve ever seen,' he told The Times.
“Ms. Keaton’s other comedy films included Harry and Walter Go to New York (1975), set in the 1890s, with James Caan and Elliott Gould; The Family Stone (2005), with an ensemble cast including Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker and Craig T. Nelson; 5 Flights Up (2014), opposite Morgan Freeman; and Poms (2019), about retirement-age cheerleaders.
“The First Wives Club (1996), in which she starred with Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler, was a major box-office hit, a comedy of revenge — or justice, depending on your point of view. Ms. Keaton’s character, for instance, learns that the therapist she has come to trust is actually having an affair with her estranged husband.
“Her final film was Summer Camp (2024), a comedy about three old friends at an eventful reunion.
“Ms. Keaton’s personal life could be fodder at times for the gossip pages as they tracked her romantic relationships, including with Mr. Beatty and Mr. Allen in addition to Mr. Pacino. She never married and adopted two children, a son, Duke Keaton, and a daughter, Dexter Keaton. Complete information on her survivors was not immediately available.
“'Getting older hasn’t made me wiser,' she told People magazine, with a typically self-critical eye, in 2019, insisting cheerfully, 'I don’t know anything, and I haven’t learned.'”
GRA: You have to like that quality in a celebrity who can say something so blissfully honest. A TRUE icon.
--GRA
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jerry pdx
I certainly enjoyed her in many of her roles, a talented comedic actress to be sure but on a personal level, I have to wonder if she wasn't married because she was just too quirky. Men usually don't care if a woman has some quirks, as long as she's young and good looking, no kids is a big plus also. But sometimes women are so odd, men can still be hesitant about commitment. Those floppy hats and mannish outer garments she wore were kind of weird. It was OK when she was young, men knew there was a hot chick under those clothes but when she got older, it started to look...well, just weird. Still, she seems to have done right by her adoptive kids, never heard anything about them going off the rails and hating their "mom", so her personality quirks didn't translate into her being a mommy dearest. Fortunately for them the adoptive agency didn't disqualify her because she was single and older, can you imagine being an orphan and missing out on being adopted by a rich middle aged celebrity because some asshole decided they were too old? Her son is now 30, her daughter still in her 20's and according to an AI search, are expected to inherit the bulk of her 100 million dollar fortune. Set up for life at those tender ages is like hitting the lottery. Nice work if you can get it.
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