Diane Keaton Fansite

Diane Keaton’s first major film role was the character of Kay Adams, the wife of Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy.

Director Francis Ford Coppola had first noticed Keaton in her previous role in Love and Other Strangers, and cast her due to her reputation for eccentricity. In the film, Adams is a non-Italian who initially symbolizes Michael’s desire for a more Americanized life. Later, after he becomes an important part of the crime family, they get married but Adams continues to believe that he is uninvolved in criminal activates, until she learns the truth late in the first film. Keaton reprised her role in The Godfather, Part II, where the character had changed dramatically and was much more embittered about her husband’s activities. Keaton also returned to play Kay Adams in 1990’s The Godfather, Part III.