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Exactly 100 years after Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle won her first gold medal at the Olympic Games, Walt Disney Studios is gearing up for the release of Young Woman and the Sea, which follows the ...
The International Swimming Hall of Fame inducted Ederle in 1965, and the National Women’s Hall of Fame inducted her in 2003. Ederle died in Wyckoff, N.J., in 2003 at age 98.
May 30, 2024 More than 1 year ago 4 min Summary Daisy Ridley plays Gertrude Ederle in “Young Woman and the Sea.” (Elena Nenkova/Disney/AP) Review by Thomas Floyd (2.5 stars) ...
The real-life Gertrude Ederle was so utterly compelled that she put her hearing, already damaged by a childhood bout with the measles, at serious risk with her immersions. Based on a biography by ...
Stirring sports biopic takes on sexism, has little iffy content. “Young Woman and the Sea” is a biopic about Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Young Woman and the Sea is based on the Glenn Stout book of the same name, which recounts how real-life American competitive swimmer Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle became the first woman to swim across ...
Gertrude Ederle loved the water. “To me, the sea is like a person — like a child I’ve known a long time,” she once said. “ I never feel alone when I’m out there.” That comfort ...
This film about Olympian Gertrude Ederle’s attempt to swim across the English Channel is the latest proof that Hollywood isn’t afraid of getting wet. Daisy Ridley, best known for playing Rey ...
A year ago, Gertrude Ederle arrived at Cape Griz Nez, France, began to eat many an egg, many a steak. Later, as everyone knows, she swam the English Channel while the band on her tugboat played ...
Last week, the day before the first anniversary of Gertrude Ederle’s brass-band-accompanied swim across the English Channel, one Edward Harry Temme, 22-year-old London insurance “clark ...