Emily Bett Rickards knew very little about professional wrestling before signing on to play one of its most important female ...

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 ...

What do you know about women’s wrestling? Personally, if you asked me this I would have to simply answer: nothing. Nothing ...

Emily Bett Rickards hit the gym and the ropes to play wrestling pioneer Mildred Burke in "Queen of the Ring," which weaves in fact with fiction.

The same can’t be said about the big screen. With scattered exceptions – “ . . . All the Marbles” (1981), “Fighting with My ...

In Ash Avildsen's new film Queen of The Ring, Emily Bett Rickards plays the role of Mildred Burke, a single mother who defied the odds in the... When she first stepped into the ring in the 1930s ...

"I can't sing and I can't dance," Mildred Burke tells her future manager, husband, business partner (and later ex-husband and ...

Mildred Burke put women’s wrestling on the map and became the first woman athlete to make a million. Yet she’s virtually ...

The post Emily Bett Rickards and Ash Avildsen on Bringing Wrestling Pioneer Mildred Burke to Life in Queen of the Ring: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Taking place from the 1930s to the ...

"Mildred Burke was a dreamer, a trailblazer, a warrior and an all-time wrestling single mother who defied the era that she was in," said Emily Bett Rickards, who plays the biopic's lead role.

In Ash Avildsen's new film Queen of The Ring, Emily Bett Rickards plays the role of Mildred Burke, a single mother who defied the odds in the 1930s to become the first million-dollar female athlete in ...