Ruth Landers

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title: "Ruth Landers" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1938-births", "2024-deaths", "american-women-film-producers", "american-television-producers", "people-from-sarasota,-florida", "german-emigrants-to-the-united-states", "film-producers-from-florida"] description: "German-born television producer, manager, and businesswoman (1938 –2024)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Landers" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary German-born television producer, manager, and businesswoman (1938 –2024) ::

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Field	Value
image	Ruth Landers.jpg
native_name_lang	de
birth_name	Ruth Béate Landers
birth_date	May 17, 1938
birth_place	Frankfurt, Germany
death_date
death_place	Sarasota, Florida
occupation	Producer, manager
notable_works	Club Fed, producer
television	The Huggabug Club
relatives	Audrey Landers, Judy Landers, daughters
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Ruth Béate Landers (May 17, 1938 – April 18, 2024) was a television producer, manager, businesswoman and mother of actresses Audrey and Judy Landers.

| image = Ruth Landers.jpg | native_name_lang = de | birth_name = Ruth Béate Landers | birth_date = May 17, 1938 | birth_place = Frankfurt, Germany | death_date = | death_place = Sarasota, Florida | occupation = Producer, manager | notable_works = Club Fed, producer | television = The Huggabug Club | relatives = Audrey Landers, Judy Landers, daughters

Background

Ruth Landers was born in 1938 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family fled to Shanghai in November 1938 after Kristallnacht. She immigrated to the United States in 1948. Her eldest daughter Audrey was born in Philadelphia in 1959.

In 1973, she established a printing company called Office Research Corporation, which she sold in 2000. In the 1980s, Landers began to establish herself as a producer of television and films, alongside managing her daughters Audrey and Judy's careers.

''The Huggabug Club''

In 1995, she created and executive produced the children's television series The Huggabug Club (1995–2000). The family self funded the production, which initially launched on 70 PBS stations, soon growing to 144 the next spring. Landers would later donate the rights to The Huggabug Club to PBS.

Landers STAR Collection

In 1998, Landers moved to Sarasota, Florida to live near her daughters. They discovered the town after visiting while doing live performances for The Huggabug Club. In Florida, Landers would go on to develop a line of affordable fashion for women alongside her daughters, which she sold through Home Shopping Europe, QVC and Shop NBC called Landers STAR Collection. The fashion line was inspired by the Landers family's personal taste and desire to create a collection wearable by mothers, daughters and grandmothers.

Landers died of natural causes in Sarasota on April 18, 2024.

Executive Producer

• 1986 Rock Candy
• 1989 Ghost Writer
• 1989 Club Fed
• 1991 California Casanova
• 2006 Circus Island

References

References

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6. (2010-02-01). ""Dallas" Star Audrey Landers, Exclusive Interview".
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8. Moore, Scott. (August 12, 1995). "Landers Sisters: Glamor to Goofiness". The Washington Post.
9. (March 8, 2006). "Say goodbye to Hollywood and hello, Sarasota". Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
10. (2008-04-02). "Audrey und Ruth Landers präsentieren ihre neue Modekollektion LANDERS STAR COLLECTION exklusiv bei HSE24".
11. Terrace, Vincent. (2024-10-16). "Experimental Television, Test Films, Pilots and Trial Series, 1925 through 1995: Seven Decades of Small Screen Almosts". McFarland.
12. Pecchia \f, David. (1989-06-18). "Films going into production".
13. Cohn, Lawrence. (August 7, 1991). "California Casanova". Taylor & Francis.
14. (2006). "The Hollywood Reporter". Hollywood Reporter Incorporated.

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