sentences:  She was born as Phyllis Grennan in The Bronx, New York, and graduated from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.After a brief stint as a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines, she started working in the casting departments of MGM and Paramount Pictures, becoming a protégé of casting director Marion Dougherty.Huffman moved on to Warner Bros., ultimately becoming the vice president of the studio's television casting department.