Young Woman and the Sea

How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World

Ranked #24 in Swimming

Currently set up and under development at Paramount Pictures as a major motion picture. ETA 2020?

In 1926, before skirt lengths inched above the knee and before anyone was ready to accept that a woman could test herself physically, a plucky American teenager named Trudy Ederle captured the imagination of the world when she became the first woman to swim the English Channel. It was, and still is, a feat more incredible and uncommon than scaling Mount Everest. Upon her return to the United States, "Trudy of America" became the most famous woman in the world. And just as quickly, she...
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