https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...ngtime-ralph-edwards-executive-was-60-1062364
RIP and reports are saying she died in her sleep.
RIP and reports are saying she died in her sleep.
Barbara Dunn-Leonard, who spent 26 years as an executive at Ralph Edwards Productions, has died. She was 60.
Dunn-Leonard died unexpectedly in her sleep from natural causes on Nov. 9 in her home in Riverside, California, publicist Vicki Greenleaf announced.
During her tenure at Ralph Edwards Productions from 1983 until her retirement in 2009, Dunn-Leonard served in a variety of positions, most recently as president. She directed development of programming and marketing, produced live events and TV shows and managed the company's historic and expansive library.
Dunn-Leonard served as co-executive producer of a series of This Is Your Life television specials for NBC and This Is Your Life: The Classics, 52 episodes reprised for AMC.
She also was co-executive producer/producer of the 1997 animated telefilm Annabelle’s Wish, which drew nearly 15 million viewers to its debut on Fox, sold more than 2 million home video units and raised more than $1.7 million for the Make-a-Wish Foundation of America.