Jeraldine Saunders

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.

Jeraldine Saunders
Born	Geraldine Loretta Glynn (1923-09-03)September 3, 1923 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	February 26, 2019(2019-02-26) (aged 95)
Occupations	Television creator/writer author lecturer cruise director model
Years active	1974–2019
Spouses	Russell Phillips ​ ​ (m. 1942; div. 1950)​ Sydney Omarr ​ ​ (m. 1966; div. 1966)​ 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]