When the pair met, Donahue was around 22 and playing as a catcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League-the women’s pro organization that inspired the 1992 Penny Marshall film A League of Their Own. The love story between Terry and Pat is an inspiration and example to us all especially during this time where we are all looking to be uplifted.” “I knew he would be the right partner to bring on board this project.
“Ryan and I collaborated on The Normal Heart, and we share a passion in championing important, untold stories,” Jason Blum, who served as executive producer alongside Gold, told TIME in an email. The project made its way to Blumhouse, best known for horror and social thriller films like Get Out, by way of producer Alexa Fogel’s longstanding relationship with Jeremy Gold, co-president of Blumhouse Television. Directed by Donahue’s great-nephew, Chris Bolan, the film is set to arrive on Netflix on April 29 as part of a slate of projects coming to the streaming service from the writer and producer Ryan Murphy. The couple’s remarkable journey and their eventual decision to come out late in life is movingly captured in the upcoming documentary A Secret Love, whose trailer debuts today on.
