Ruth Landers, who created the Nineties PBS youngsters present The Huggabug Membership together with her daughters, actresses Audrey Landers and Judy Landers, has died. She was 85.
A longtime resident of Sarasota, Florida, Landers died April 18 of pure causes, her household introduced.
Audrey Landers, 67, portrayed Afton Cooper on Dallas on and off for seven seasons and performed the dancer Val Clarke within the 1985 big-screen model of A Refrain Line, directed by Richard Attenborough. Judy Landers, 65, was on such TV exhibits as Vega$, B.J. and the Bear and Madam’s Place.
Aimed toward preschoolers, The Huggabug Membership featured Audrey as Miss Audrey and Judy as Miss Judy, working reverse full-bodied puppets. Full of songs and scripts written by Audrey, it aired on PBS from January 1995 to June 1997, adopted by years of reruns.
Ruth additionally produced Ghost Author (1989), that includes her daughters; Membership Fed (1990), starring Judy; and California Casanova (1991), starring Audrey; and govt produced Circus Camp (2006), which included her daughters and different members of the family.
Ruth Béate Landers was born on Might 17, 1938, in Frankfurt, Germany. Shortly after the Kristallnacht incidents in November 1938, she and her mom, grandmother and grandfather — the surviving members of her household — fled the Nazis for Shanghai.
She arrived within the U.S. in 1948 and in her mid-20s launched her personal nationwide printing firm, Workplace Analysis Corp. Later, she managed the careers of her daughters and served as Audrey’s supervisor when she toured as a singer.
Ruth additionally co-founded the Landers Star Assortment, offering inexpensive vogue to girls via Dwelling Procuring Europe, QVC and ShopNBC.
Along with her daughters (Judy is married to former Dodgers reliever Tom Niedenfuer), survivors embrace her grandchildren, Daniel, Adam, Lindsey and Kristy; great-grandchildren Sawyer, Evangeline and Hendricks; and sister Esther.