Jeraldine Saunders
American writer (1923–2019)
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Geraldine Loretta Saunders (September 3, 1923 – February 26, 2019)[1] known under pen name Jeraldine Saunders was an American writer, TV creator/screenwriter and lecturer.
September 3, 1923
- Television creator/writer
- author
- lecturer
- cruise director
- model
Jeraldine Saunders | |
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| Born | Geraldine Loretta Glynn September 3, 1923 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | February 26, 2019 (aged 95) |
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| Years active | 1974–2019 |
| Spouses | Russell Phillips
(m. 1942; div. 1950)Arthur Andrews
(m. 1972; died 2003) |
| Children | Gail Maureen Phillips (1943–1970) |
Biography
Saunders was best known as the creator[2] of TV series The Love Boat, an ABC Television series and its associated made-for-TV films portraying the humorous and romantic adventures of various itinerant passengers. Saunders had worked as a model, an astrologer, an numerologist and palm reader.[3]
The program was based on her 1974 book, The Love Boats,[4][5] her anecdotal account of her time employed as the first full-time female cruise director. From 2003 until her death Saunders was the author of Omarr's Astrological Forecast.[6] The nationally syndicated horoscope column, read by hundreds of thousands worldwide, was originally created by Sydney Omarr, to whom she had been briefly married in 1966.[3]
In 1968 Saunders discovered her fiancé, the actor Albert Dekker, dead in his Hollywood home. The death was ruled to be accidental.[7]
