Jeraldine Saunders, creator of hit ABC series The Love Boat, has died aged 96.
Saunders died at her home in Glendale from complications of kidney stone surgery that she underwent in December.
She was best known for writing the 1974 book The Love Boats, which the ABC comedy drama was based on. The book documented her experience on the high seas as the first female cruise director for a major cruise line, Princess Cruises.
The series, which was produced by Aaron Spelling, ran for nearly 250 episodes between 1977 and 1986.
Saunders recently received the Southern California Motion Picture Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award presented to her by The Love Boat star Bernie Kopell and Oscar winning actress Margaret O’Brien and also celebrated a Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony with the cast in May.
At this time of her death, Jeraldine Saunders was in the process of negotiating and writing an outline for a...
Saunders died at her home in Glendale from complications of kidney stone surgery that she underwent in December.
She was best known for writing the 1974 book The Love Boats, which the ABC comedy drama was based on. The book documented her experience on the high seas as the first female cruise director for a major cruise line, Princess Cruises.
The series, which was produced by Aaron Spelling, ran for nearly 250 episodes between 1977 and 1986.
Saunders recently received the Southern California Motion Picture Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award presented to her by The Love Boat star Bernie Kopell and Oscar winning actress Margaret O’Brien and also celebrated a Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony with the cast in May.
At this time of her death, Jeraldine Saunders was in the process of negotiating and writing an outline for a...
- 2/26/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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