Wrestling biopics, while rare, are not new. Late 2023 saw the release of The Iron Claw, about the famed Von Erich family.
Most ardent wrestling fans have at the very least heard the name Mildred Burke, even if they are not intimately familiar with her rise to fame in the 1930's, 40 ...
Mildred Burke put women’s wrestling on the map and became the first woman athlete to make a million. Yet she’s virtually ...
Emily Bett Rickards plays the title role in “Queen of the Ring,” based on the true story of Mildred Burke, the pioneering ...
Emily Bett Rickards ("Arrow") stars in the new movie "Queen of the Ring," which will be released to theaters this Friday, March 7th.
Arrow star Emily Bett Rickards has reflected on her time in The CW series, revealing she had to develop a thick skin in ...
Still, though there’s no denying that the wrestlers in both “The Iron Claw” and “Queen of the Ring” gave their blood, sweat ...
TV fans watched her light up the superhero world as Felicity Smoak on eight seasons of Arrow. Now, Emily Bett Rickards takes ...
Ash Avildsen adapts Jeff Leen's Pulitzer Prize-winning book following the life of the first million-dollar female athlete, ...
GLOW,” a series from Netflix that ran for three seasons in the late 2010s — before, frustratingly, seeing its announced ...
The story of pioneer “lady wrestler” Mildred Burke (Emily Bett Rickards) finally hits the big screen in “Queen of the Ring." ...
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 ...