Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Adapted from Glenn Stout’s 2009 book of the same name, the film tells the true story of how Ederle, at just 20 years old, became the first woman to swim the treacherous English Channel in August 1926 ...

“Young Woman and the Sea” star Daisy Ridley had three months to prepare for her role as Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. She began the training buoyed by pluck. But ...

When Gertrude Ederle — the first woman to swim the English Channel and to set a new speed record for doing so — died six years ago at the age of 98, I remember routinely glancing at the photos on the ...

Perspective washed over Daisy Ridley as she surfaced from the Black Sea. The actress had just completed a 500-foot swim, her longest during the production of her new movie “Young Woman and the Sea,” ...

If life were fair, every astonishing human feat in history would be commemorated by the astonishingly good movie it deserved. Alas, life isn’t fair, and so here we have “Young Woman and the Sea,” ...

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Young Woman and the Sea, a Gertrude Ederle biopic of the first woman to swim the English Channel, is set for a May release date, with the trailer revealed this week. It will star Daisy Ridley and be ...

The 'Star Wars' and 'Magpie' actress faces the seas in Joachim Ronning's portrait of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic ...

“Young Woman and the Sea” star Daisy Ridley had three months to prepare for her role as Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. She began the training buoyed by pluck. But ...