About
Produced Taxi Driver and The Sting and was also the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Film. She produced The Beat, The Boost, and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.
Before Fame
She studied at Mount Holyoke College and then worked for some time editing magazine articles.
Trivia
She died from cancer on New Year's Day in West Hollywood in 2002. She had a small role in the 1977 sci-fi film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Family Life
She married Michael Phillips whom she met in 1965.
Associated With
She collaborated with such legends as Robert De Niro.
