Bette Midler has provided a heartfelt tribute to her First Wives Membership costar Diane Keaton following Keaton’s dying at age 79.
“The good, stunning, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died,” Midler, 79, wrote through Instagram on Saturday, October 11. “I can’t let you know how unbearably unhappy this makes me.”
Keaton’s spokesperson confirmed to Folks earlier on Saturday that the Academy Award-winning actress had died of undisclosed causes. Her household “requested for privateness” as they grieve.
In her Instagram tribute, Midler remembered Keaton as a real unique among the many scores of legendary Hollywood stars she’d encountered all through her profession.
“She was hilarious, an entire unique, and fully with out guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have anticipated from such a star,” Midler remembered. “What you noticed was who she was…oh, la, lala!”
The duo — together with Goldie Hawn – performed former faculty finest pals who band collectively towards their estranged husbands within the 1996 movie adaptation of Olivia Goldsmith’s 1992 novel of the identical title.
The comedy blockbuster made practically $200 million on the field workplace, giving all three main girls their highest-grossing mission of the Nineteen Nineties as much as that time.
There was typically discuss of a sequel or spinoff of some type within the ensuing many years — together with a 2015 film with Netflix known as Divanation that will have forged the trio as a previously fashionable singing group reuniting 30 years after a contentious breakup, based on Deadline. Sadly, growth on the mission by no means acquired off the bottom and it was later deserted totally.
Keaton instructed Delight Supply that she would have liked to work with Hawn and Midler once more on The First Wives Membership 2, and was upset it by no means took place.
Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler in “First Wives Membership.” Paramount / Courtesy Everett Assortment
“After all I’m , but it surely by no means occurred,” she famous. “And we tried, in a method, the women, however we by no means acquired script and I don’t know why and now it’s type of like, it’s over, proper? Nobody’s gonna have us get in a film collectively, the three of us. However I like that film, and I like them.”
Keaton’s dying drew tributes from lots of her costars and well-known pals on Saturday. Kimberly Williams-Paisley — who performed Keaton and Steve Martin’s onscreen daughter in 1991’s Father of the Bride and its 1995 sequel — wrote that working with the Hollywood icon as “one of many highlights of my life.”
“You’re certainly one of a sort, and it was thrilling to be in your orbit for a time,” Williams-Paisley, 54, wrote through Instagram. “Thanks to your kindness, your generosity, your expertise, and above all, your laughter.”
Elizabeth Perkins remembered Keaton as “a nationwide treasure” in her personal Instagram tribute on Saturday.
Followers of famed actress Diane Keaton are revisiting a number of the actress’ most memorable roles following information of her dying. Folks confirmed on October 11, 2025 that the One thing’s Gotta Give actress died in California. She was 79. A spokesperson instructed the outlet no further data relating to the actress’ dying was obtainable on the time, […]
“Ms. Keaton, you have been a nationwide treasure, with model, grace, intelligence and immense expertise. Thanks for being my trendy heroine and displaying a younger actress what it meant to be gutsy, totally self-deprecating however assured and to all the time be open, questioning and courageous,” Perkins wrote. “Advanced, eccentric and so gifted, you owned it…and wow, did you set the bar. You’ll all the time be my Annie Corridor. Gosh, this cuts deep.”
Keaton is survived by two kids, Dexter and Duke, whom she adopted in her 50s. The Annie Corridor actress by no means married however had high-profile relationships with Woody Allen, Al Pacino and Warren Beatty all through her lifetime.
