Cis Corman
Cis Corman, 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
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.Career
Corman was a mother of four, taking an acting class, when she met and encouraged a teenaged fellow student, Barbra Streisand. She later appeared with Streisand in Funny Girl, worked as casting director on Streisand's Yentl, and became president of Streisand's Barwood Films in 1984. She held producer credits on Nuts, The Prince of Tides, Serving in Silence: The [Margarethe Cammermeyer Story], The Mirror Has Two Faces, Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women, The [Long Island Incident], Varian's War, What Makes a Family, and Reel Models: The First Women of Film.Corman was also casting director on other films, including Death Wish, The Deer Hunter, The Eyes of Laura Mars, Raging Bull, Heaven's Gate, The [King of Comedy (film)|The King of Comedy], Once Upon a Time in America, and The [Last Temptation of Christ (film)|The Last Temptation of Christ].
Corman won a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award in 1995, for ''Serving in Silence.''