'It all just happened so quickly at that point.
She said the women were encouraged to get rid of their existing apartments. Cindy Ferda ('Americana') explained in the documentary that she moved from Los Angeles to Vegas after she landed the GLOW gig. As the 2012 documentary GLOW: The Story Of The Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling highlighted, the women filmed their live shows at the hotel and also lived there for some time. When GLOW premiered in 1986, Riklis owned the Riviera Hotel and Casino on the Vegas Strip. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that entrepreneur Meshulam Riklis was the main financial backer of the original GLOW. But the actual GLOW was based out of Las Vegas, a setting that was incredibly fitting for the 1980s wrestling show. In the fictionalized telling of their story, GLOW, at least for its first two seasons, takes place in and around Los Angeles. So how does this compare to the story of the real-life Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling? Did the original GLOW have a Las Vegas show? By the time the second season wraps up, the women are trading TV cameras for casinos, heading to Las Vegas to turn their GLOW (the show within the Netflix show) into a live act. Spoiler warning for the Season 2 finale of GLOW.
When the Netflix series returns on June 29, the women will have to navigate their rising local fame and consider what it means for their futures. The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling were just about to make their TV debut at the very end of Season 1 of GLOW.
