[1] Her parents were both worked in the entertainment business: her mother was a professional singer and dancer, and her father wrote songs and jingles[1] and was an editor of the Jewish Daily Forward.
[1] In 1972, Corday joined and worked as a publicist for the anti-war organization Another Mother for Peace where she met its founder, Barbara Avedon who was also a new mom.
[1] In 1974, they started working on Cagney and Lacey and tried to sell the script but were unsuccessful despite having support from Ed Feldman, executive in charge of film development at Filmways and from Sherry Lansing at MGM.
Corday was scouted by Marcy Carsey[1] who was then senior vice president of prime-time series at ABC.
In 1981, the script for Cagney and Lacey was finally accepted by CBS who made a movie followed by a TV series which aired from 1982 to 1988.
Shortly after the formation of Columbia Pictures Entertainment, she was displaced as president by then-Tri-Star Television executive Scott Siegler.
[citation needed] On June 3, 1979, Corday married Barney Rosenzweig and she became stepmother to his three children by his first wife, Jo Anne Lang.