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Following the successful initial sale to 30 major television markets in the US and six other countries, McLane brought in Jackie Stallone, mother of Sylvester Stallone, to play kayfabe GLOW owner and the manager of the Good Girls. Kitty Burke as Aunt Kitty, was the manager for the Bad Girls.
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Jun 27, 2017 · The humble beginnings of G.L.O.W. are fictionalized in the new Netflix series GLOW from Orange Is the New Black producer Jenji Kohan, and early reviews are very positive. But the demise of...
- Hollywood (Jeanne Basone) This villain from the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling went on to start her own company, Hollywould Productions, according to Thrillist.
- Mountain Fiji (Emily Dole) Sadly, Dole passed away in January 2018 at the age of 60, per the New York Daily News. Although no cause of death was given at the time, she was depicted in the 2012 documentary as being in poor health.
- Matilda the Hun (Deanna Booher) Booher, who played the Germanic villain on GLOW, is now permanently in a wheelchair. This is due to a degenerative disc disease, which is a side effect from years of wrestling, according to Vice.
- Colonel Ninotchka (Lorilyn Palmer) Palmer's character was a clear inspiration for Alison Brie's Zoya the Destroyer persona on the Netflix revival. "[Ninotchka is] always making phone calls and talking about the KGB, so I would watch those when working on the accent," Brie told Uproxx about preparing for her role.
- Dawn Maestas, A.K.A. Godiva
- Jeanne Basone, A.K.A. Hollywood
- Angelina Altishin, A.K.A. Little Egypt
- Ursula Hayden, A.K.A. Babe The Farmer’s Daughter
In the Netflix series, actress Kate Nash plays Rhonda, a kind and physically slender Brit whose in-ring persona is a genius named Britannica. In the real G.L.O.W., that role belonged to a character named Godiva. Unlike most of the women in the G.L.O.W. locker room, Dawn Maestas wasn’t interested in show business. “I was never in a play,” she tells ...
In GLOW, Sydelle Noel plays an ex-stuntwoman named Cherry, a loose version of Jeanne Basone’s G.L.O.W. character “Hollywood. After the series, she became a stuntwoman and found steady modeling work around Los Angeles. She also still wrestles. “I worked for Jagermeister, I was a Bud girl, a Miller Light girl, things you do in your ‘20s,” she tells I...
At 19 years old, Angelina Altishin rose to G.L.O.W. heights as the belly-dancing Little Egypt. The league’s habit of employing offensive stereotypes is taken to task in the Netflix series, but the times were very different, and Altishin — who’s ethnically Turkish and Italian — was up for it, because hey, it was a job. “I didn’t even know what I was...
While the Netflix series will rekindle interest in G.L.O.W., it’s only still around thanks to the work of Ursula Hayden, who wrestled in the league as the sultry Babe the Farmer’s Daughter. Another gifted high school athlete who completed tennis and gymnastics — “Tumbling, falling, I was used to it”— Ursula has been the owner of the G.L.O.W. name a...
Jun 23, 2017 · The answer to that question is both yes and no. Yes, in the sense that a women's wrestling program called the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW for short) really did exist in the '80s.
- Anna Menta
Women of Wrestling (WOW), is an American women's professional wrestling promotion founded in 2000 by David McLane (who also founded Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW)). WOW is based in Los Angeles, California, and is owned by McLane and Los Angeles Lakers owner/president Jeanie Buss. [1]
Jul 24, 2017 · The Creator of the Original GLOW on Why He Wanted to Put Women Wrestlers on TV. L-R: Mt. Fiji, David McLane, and Matilda the Hun. David McLane had nothing to do with the writing or producing...
