Ash Avildsen, Mildred Burke and Queen of the Ring

Ash Avildsen adapts Jeff Leen's Pulitzer Prize-winning book following the life of the first million-dollar female athlete, ...
Queen of the Ring is a sports biopic about Mildred Burke, the pioneering female pro wrestler. Starring Emily Bett Rickards as ...
The story of pioneer “lady wrestler” Mildred Burke (Emily Bett Rickards) finally hits the big screen in “Queen of the Ring." ...
Mercedes Mone nearly had a role in the Queen of the Ring film on the life of Mildred Burke. In her Mone Mag newsletter, Mone said that she was approached about ...
The same can’t be said about the big screen. With scattered exceptions – “ . . . All the Marbles” (1981), “Fighting with My ...
Rather randomly, Mildred stumbles upon a wrestling match in Kansas City and proclaims the sport her destiny. The story continues chronologically, tracking Mildred and her manager turned husband Billy ...
Emily Bett Rickards knew very little about professional wrestling before signing on to play one of its most important female ...
"I can't sing and I can't dance," Mildred Burke tells her future manager, husband, business partner (and later ex-husband and ...
While All Elite Wrestling fans know her as high-maintenance, low-saturation champion “Timeless” Toni Storm, moviegoers will ...