Cis Corman, distinguished casting director and president of Barbra Streisand’s production companies, died in New York on Monday. She was 93.
Born in Brookline, Mass., Corman began her career as a casting director in 1974, selecting roles for films such as Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull,” Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America,” Michael Cimino’s “The Deer Hunter” and Streisand’s “Yentl.”
She later became the president of Streisand’s Barwood Films and Barwood Television production companies, executive producing on countless projects including “Nuts,” “The Price of Tides,” “Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story,” “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” “Rescuers: Stories of Courage” and more.
Streisand considered Corman not only her best friend, but a surrogate mother, as Corman was 32 and Streisand only 16 when the two first met in an acting class.
“I treasured our lifelong friendship, her intelligence, her taste and her integrity. I loved Cis...
Born in Brookline, Mass., Corman began her career as a casting director in 1974, selecting roles for films such as Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull,” Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America,” Michael Cimino’s “The Deer Hunter” and Streisand’s “Yentl.”
She later became the president of Streisand’s Barwood Films and Barwood Television production companies, executive producing on countless projects including “Nuts,” “The Price of Tides,” “Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story,” “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” “Rescuers: Stories of Courage” and more.
Streisand considered Corman not only her best friend, but a surrogate mother, as Corman was 32 and Streisand only 16 when the two first met in an acting class.
“I treasured our lifelong friendship, her intelligence, her taste and her integrity. I loved Cis...
- 4/30/2020
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Veteran casting director Cis Corman has died. She was 93.
Corman worked repeatedly with many top filmmakers. Her credits include Martin Scorsese classics such as The King of Comedy, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ. She also worked on Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate as well as the Barbra Streisand-directed films Yentl and The Prince of Tides.
Corman later served as president of Streisand’s production companies Barwood Films and Barwood Television. She was remembered by Streisand on Wednesday as her “best friend and surrogate mother.”
Streisand recalled she first met Corman when she was 16 and Corman 34, noting she treasured Corman’s “lifelong friendship, her intelligence, her taste, her integrity.”
“We shared the conviction that a film has to serve some key social purpose,” said Streisand, “And the issues addressed in our television projects included the significant and disregarded history of women in film,...
Corman worked repeatedly with many top filmmakers. Her credits include Martin Scorsese classics such as The King of Comedy, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ. She also worked on Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate as well as the Barbra Streisand-directed films Yentl and The Prince of Tides.
Corman later served as president of Streisand’s production companies Barwood Films and Barwood Television. She was remembered by Streisand on Wednesday as her “best friend and surrogate mother.”
Streisand recalled she first met Corman when she was 16 and Corman 34, noting she treasured Corman’s “lifelong friendship, her intelligence, her taste, her integrity.”
“We shared the conviction that a film has to serve some key social purpose,” said Streisand, “And the issues addressed in our television projects included the significant and disregarded history of women in film,...
- 4/30/2020
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Cis Corman, a casting director on films including Death Wish, Raging Bull and The Deer Hunter who later served as Barbra Streisand's "surrogate mother" and president of her production company, has died. She was 93.
Corman died Monday at her home in New York City, her son, photographer Richard Corman, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Corman collaborated with Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982) — she hired stand-up comedian Sandra Bernhard for that — and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); with Michael Cimino on the best picture Oscar winner The Deer Hunter ...
Corman died Monday at her home in New York City, her son, photographer Richard Corman, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Corman collaborated with Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982) — she hired stand-up comedian Sandra Bernhard for that — and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); with Michael Cimino on the best picture Oscar winner The Deer Hunter ...
- 4/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cis Corman, a casting director on films including Death Wish, Raging Bull and The Deer Hunter who later served as Barbra Streisand's "surrogate mother" and president of her production company, has died. She was 93.
Corman died Monday at her home in New York City, her son, photographer Richard Corman, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Corman collaborated with Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982) — she hired stand-up comedian Sandra Bernhard for that — and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); with Michael Cimino on the best picture Oscar winner The Deer Hunter ...
Corman died Monday at her home in New York City, her son, photographer Richard Corman, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Corman collaborated with Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982) — she hired stand-up comedian Sandra Bernhard for that — and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); with Michael Cimino on the best picture Oscar winner The Deer Hunter ...
- 4/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
On April 24, 2019, Barbra Streisand will celebrate her 77th birthday. She has found success as a top recording artist, a Broadway performer, on concert stages and on film as an actress, producer, writer, composer and a pioneering female director.
Streisand longed for success in show business from a young age. The problem was she just didn’t quite no where her talents were. After seeing the Broadway production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” starring Susan Strasberg, she became inspired to be an actress because she saw another young Jewish girl doing that. After high school she moved to Manhattan and pounded the pavement desperately auditioning for any acting role she could find. She was not very successful in her auditions so she decided to try singing which she had received praise for her as a child.
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Streisand longed for success in show business from a young age. The problem was she just didn’t quite no where her talents were. After seeing the Broadway production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” starring Susan Strasberg, she became inspired to be an actress because she saw another young Jewish girl doing that. After high school she moved to Manhattan and pounded the pavement desperately auditioning for any acting role she could find. She was not very successful in her auditions so she decided to try singing which she had received praise for her as a child.
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- 4/24/2019
- by Robert Pius and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
On April 24, 2019, Barbra Streisand will celebrate her 77th birthday. She has found success as a top recording artist, a Broadway performer, on concert stages and on film as an actress, producer, writer, composer and a pioneering female director.
Streisand longed for success in show business from a young age. The problem was she just didn’t quite no where her talents were. After seeing the Broadway production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” starring Susan Strasberg, she became inspired to be an actress because she saw another young Jewish girl doing that. After high school she moved to Manhattan and pounded the pavement desperately auditioning for any acting role she could find. She was not very successful in her auditions so she decided to try singing which she had received praise for her as a child.
Cis Corman, who was then Streisand’s neighbor and would later become a producer...
Streisand longed for success in show business from a young age. The problem was she just didn’t quite no where her talents were. After seeing the Broadway production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” starring Susan Strasberg, she became inspired to be an actress because she saw another young Jewish girl doing that. After high school she moved to Manhattan and pounded the pavement desperately auditioning for any acting role she could find. She was not very successful in her auditions so she decided to try singing which she had received praise for her as a child.
Cis Corman, who was then Streisand’s neighbor and would later become a producer...
- 4/24/2019
- by Robert Pius, Misty Holland and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Hard to believe that it has been 30 years since Robert De Niro pulled the original Christian Bale method-acting-insanity trick and hung the health consequences to balloon in weight for the role of Jake ‘The Bronx Bull’ La Motta. But blu-ray boxes don’t lie (pffft!), and this week’s 30th Anniversary Special Edition Blu-Ray is pretty firm evidence.
But, can we start with the cover? The film features some of the most iconic images in cinematic history- one of which the Special Edition DVD cover took advantage of to such success- and yet this celebratory edition features a bloated close-up image that looks more like a bad wax-work of Sylvester Stallone. Bad decision.
For anyone who doesn’t know the story, Raging Bull is effectively the filmic counter-point to films like The Wrestler and The Fighter. While they purport to be about complex humanist stories of redemption, they simply cannot...
But, can we start with the cover? The film features some of the most iconic images in cinematic history- one of which the Special Edition DVD cover took advantage of to such success- and yet this celebratory edition features a bloated close-up image that looks more like a bad wax-work of Sylvester Stallone. Bad decision.
For anyone who doesn’t know the story, Raging Bull is effectively the filmic counter-point to films like The Wrestler and The Fighter. While they purport to be about complex humanist stories of redemption, they simply cannot...
- 2/22/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
(Cathy Moriarty-Gentile and Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, above.)
This interview with Cathy Moriarty-Gentile originally appeared in Venice Magazine in 2002. I was speaking with Cathy during the press interviews for Analyze That, the sequel to Analyze This, in which Cathy played a female mob moss. It was also an on-screen reunion for Cathy and Robert De Niro, who had originally starred together in Raging Bull when Cathy played Vickie La Motta, the young wife of De Niro's Jake La Motta. For this reprisal, I've cut out much of the Analyze That questioning and focused on the Bull.
by Terry Keefe
How were you originally cast in Analyze That? Did you read for it or did they have you in mind from the get-go?
Cathy Moriarty-Gentile: I had just had [daughter] Annabella and I was at our old house, we were moving. The phone rang, to ask if I would...
This interview with Cathy Moriarty-Gentile originally appeared in Venice Magazine in 2002. I was speaking with Cathy during the press interviews for Analyze That, the sequel to Analyze This, in which Cathy played a female mob moss. It was also an on-screen reunion for Cathy and Robert De Niro, who had originally starred together in Raging Bull when Cathy played Vickie La Motta, the young wife of De Niro's Jake La Motta. For this reprisal, I've cut out much of the Analyze That questioning and focused on the Bull.
by Terry Keefe
How were you originally cast in Analyze That? Did you read for it or did they have you in mind from the get-go?
Cathy Moriarty-Gentile: I had just had [daughter] Annabella and I was at our old house, we were moving. The phone rang, to ask if I would...
- 2/4/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Barbra Streisand is eagerly awaiting the re-written script for the television adaptation of the Broadway musical MAME - so she can decide if she'll star in it or not. Streisand is already confirmed to executive produce the project, and according to her co-worker Cis Corman, indications suggest the re-write is so far in accordance with Streisand's wishes. She says, "I think we're going to get it within the week - I can't wait. We're doing a major rewrite on it and from what I hear about all the changes that have been made, they're exactly what we would have wanted... It's going to be more about the story. The music's not going to take over." Streisand's already working on another couple of television projects including a documentary called REEL MODELS: THE FIRST WOMEN OF FILM hosted by Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon and Hilary Swank.
- 5/31/2000
- WENN
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