Cis Corman
Cis Corman | |
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| Bridal photo of a young white woman with dark hair. Cis Corman, from a 1946 newspaper. | |
| Born | Eleanor Tobe Cohen May 12, 1926 Chelsea, Massachusetts |
| Died | April 27, 2020(2020年04月27日) (aged 93) New York City |
| Occupation(s) | Casting director, film producer |
| Children | Richard Corman (photographer) |
| Relatives | Cid Corman (brother-in-law) |
Cis Corman (May 12, 1926 – April 27, 2020), born Eleanor Tobe Cohen, was an American casting director and film producer. She worked closely with Barbra Streisand and Martin Scorsese during her long career.
Early life
[edit ]Eleanor Tobe Cohen was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Cohen. Her family was Jewish. She graduated from Green Mountain College.[1]
Career
[edit ]Corman was a mother of four, taking an acting class, when she met and encouraged a teenaged fellow student, Barbra Streisand.[2] [3] She later appeared with Streisand in Funny Girl (1968), worked as casting director on Streisand's Yentl (1983), and became president of Streisand's Barwood Films in 1984.[4] She held producer credits on Nuts (1987), The Prince of Tides (1991), Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995),[5] The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1998),[6] The Long Island Incident (1998),[7] Varian's War (2001), What Makes a Family (2001), and Reel Models: The First Women of Film (2001).[8] [9]
Corman was also casting director on other films, including Death Wish (1974), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), Raging Bull (1980), Heaven's Gate (1980), The King of Comedy (1982),[10] Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).[8]
Corman won a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award in 1995, for Serving in Silence.[11] [12]
Personal life
[edit ]Eleanor Tobe Cohen married Harvey Harold Corman, a psychiatrist,[13] in 1946. They had four children, including photographer Richard Corman. Her husband died in 2001. She died in 2020, aged 93, at her home in New York City.[8] Her brother-in-law was poet and translator Cid Corman.[14]
References
[edit ]- ^ "Marriage Is Announced". The Boston Globe. 1946年08月04日. p. 95. Retrieved 2020年12月21日 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Tapp, Tom (2020年04月30日). "Veteran Casting Director Cis Corman Remembered By "Best Friend" Barbra Streisand". Deadline. Retrieved 2020年12月21日.
- ^ Edwards, Anne (2016年02月15日). Streisand: A Biography. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-63076-129-5.
- ^ Shafer, Ellise (2020年04月30日). "Cis Corman, Barbra Streisand Collaborator and Veteran Casting Director, Dies at 93". Variety. Retrieved 2020年12月21日.
- ^ King, Susan (1995年02月06日). "Show Tells Fired Lesbian Officer's Life". Florida Today. p. 23. Retrieved 2020年12月21日 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bobbin, Jay (1997年10月05日). "An Honorable Risk". The Times. p. 115. Retrieved 2020年12月21日 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ King, Susan (1998年05月03日). "Rep. McCarthy Goes to Hollywood". The Los Angeles Times. p. 484. Retrieved 2020年12月21日 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c Barnes, Mike (April 29, 2020). "Cis Corman, Casting Director on 'Death Wish,' 'Raging Bull' and 'The Deer Hunter,' Dies at 93". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2020年12月21日.
- ^ Elber, Lynn (2000年05月30日). "AMC Featuring Pioneer Women Filmmakers". Lancaster Eagle-Gazette. p. 22. Retrieved 2020年12月21日 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Kaz, Donna (2016年11月01日). UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5107-0945-4.
- ^ "Cis Corman". Television Academy. Retrieved 2020年12月21日.
- ^ "Cis Corman". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved 2020年12月21日.
- ^ Mann, William J. (2012年10月09日). Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand. HMH. pp. 22–28. ISBN 978-0-547-90586-0.
- ^ "Obituary for Abraham CORMAN". The Boston Globe. 1968年12月23日. p. 33. Retrieved 2020年12月22日 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
[edit ]- Cis Corman at IMDb
- Cis Corman at the Internet Broadway Database
- Peabody Award Acceptance Speech, 1995, by Cis Corman, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, on YouTube.
- 1926 births
- 2020 deaths
- 20th-century American Jews
- 21st-century American Jews
- American casting directors
- American women casting directors
- American women film producers
- Film producers from Massachusetts
- Green Mountain College alumni
- Jewish film people
- Jews from Massachusetts
- Mass media people from Brookline, Massachusetts
- Peabody Award winners
- People from Chelsea, Massachusetts