Barbara Corday

Corday was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City on October 15, 1944, the only child of Josephine "Josie" (née Rich) and Leo Corday. Her parents were both worked in the entertainment business: her mother was a professional singer and dancer, and her father wrote songs and jingles Her parents divorced when she was a teenager. She then moved to Miami with her mother where they had family and attended North Miami High School. After high school, at the age of 16, she moved back to New York City and worked as a receptionist for the Max Richards Theatrical agency which acted as an employment agency for actors. ==Work==

After a year working as a receptionist, a family friend got her a job as a publicist at Mo Braveman Associates that represented nightclubs, singers, performers; she later went to work for Dorothy Ross Associates which represented Broadway shows. In 1984, Columbia exec, Herman Rush, recommended that she take over his position as a president of Columbia Pictures which made her the first female senior executive at Coca-Cola which then owned Columbia Pictures. In 1988, Larry Tisch and Howard Stringer hired her as executive vice president of Primetime Programming at CBS Entertainment; she left in 1990 after her boss, network entertainment president Kim LeMasters resigned in 1990. and from 1993 to 1994, she served as president of New World Television. ==Personal life==

In 1966, she married her first husband Michael Gershman and they divorced in 1969; they had one daughter. ==Political activities==

Corday was a founding member of the Hollywood Women's Political Committee, which operated from 1984 to 1997. ==References==