Geraldine Loretta Saunders (September 3, 1923 – February 26, 2019) known under

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Jeraldine Saunders was an American writer, TV creator/screenwriter and lecturer.

Biography

Saunders was best known as the creator of TV series ''

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'', an

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series and its associated made-for-TV films portraying the humorous and romantic adventures of various itinerant passengers. Saunders had worked as a

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, an

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, an

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and

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. The program was based on her 1974 book, ''

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'', 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. 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. In 1968 Saunders discovered her fiancé, the actor

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, dead in his

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home. The death was ruled to be accidental.

References

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