Casting director Mary Goldberg loses cancer battle

Veteran Hollywood casting director Mary Goldberg has died, aged 72.
She was responsible for bringing together the stars of TV hits Rhoda and Phyllis, and movies like Alien, Amadeus and Ragtime.
Goldberg lost her battle with lung cancer last week (07Sep17), according to Deadline.com
She began her career as an assistant to the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theater’s associate producer Bernard Gersten in the early 1970s and became the Shakespeare Festival’s Head of Casting for the Public Theater, recruiting the likes of Raul Julia and James Earl Jones for theatre roles.
She went on to become the casting director for the Lincoln Center Repertory Company, before moving to Los Angeles to help Mary Tyler Moore and Grant Tinker’s production company cast hit TV spin-offs Rhoda and Phyllis, starring Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman, respectively.
She turned to movies in the late 1970s and helped Mel Brooks cast his 1976 comedy Silent Movie.
Her other credits include Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Silkwood.