Biography
A prolific producer of theater and film, Lois Rosenfield was well known for such Broadway productions as Barnum and such films as 1973's
Bang the Drum Slowly. A Chicago native who received her education at the University of Wisconsin, Rosenfield founded Rosenfield Productions with lawyer husband Maurice. One of their earliest productions,
Bang the Drum Slowly, found Lois taking credit for casting a young
Robert De Niro. Later gravitating toward Broadway with credits for The Glass Menagerie and Singin' in the Rain, the duo also produced such off-Broadway efforts as
Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca and Falsettoland. On May 25, 2002, Lois Rosenfield died of cancer in her Glencoe, IL, home. She was 78. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide