Diane Keaton always knew she didn’t fit the mold of the classical beautiful movie star and lamented, before she was even in high school, that the “attractive genes” in her family had passed on to her two younger sisters.

But the Oscar-winning Keaton, who died Saturday at age 79, came to be known as a “world-class beauty” and a fashion icon in her own way, as The Guardian said. She was “a quiet subversive who, in the most cookie-cutter of Hollywood eras, dodged the stamp of the machine and chose to live her life her own way.” Still, Keaton had to abide by certain Hollywood beauty standards in order to have a successful five-decade film career. It helped that she had a radiant smile and that she was both blonde and slender.

But as Keaton described in her 2012 memoir, “Then Again” (Random H

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