Women’s swimwear was neither comfortable nor practical back in the day, as Daisy Ridley can attest. To play trailblazing ocean swimmer Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle in Young Woman and the Sea (in theaters ...

As part of Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind awards season’s buzziest films, it’s time to dive into Young Woman and the Sea, the Daisy Ridley starrer about American ...

There was a time when Disney made ideal family movies that weren’t animated, or live action reboots of animated films. In fact, there was a time when Walt Disney would take on original live action ...

There’s something reassuringly retrograde about Disney taking a break from special-effects spectaculars to release “Young Woman and the Sea,” a theatrical feature about a feisty New Yorker trying to ...

In August 1926, American champion swimmer Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, completing the 21-mile feat in 14 hours and 34 minutes—a record that would stand ...

Daisy Ridley's new movie Young Woman and the Sea is based on an extraordinary true story that deserves to be celebrated. Now available on Disney+, the movie follows Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle, a US ...

Based on Glenn Stout’s nonfiction account of the same title, “Young Woman and the Sea” gets by on the careful engineering of clichés, Daisy Ridley and a really good piece of irresistibly rousing ...

(L-R) Jeanette Hain an Daisy Ridley in 'Young Woman and the Sea' Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures As part of Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind awards season’s ...