Hey L&D Fans!

Lipstick & Dynamite is available to rent via Netflix, not to mention through some local
libraries!!

Hope you're having a great summer!
Connie

Hello Everyone...

We just got a message from Claire, Gladys' daughter....

"Gladys took a bad fall last week.� We thought she had broken her hip but it was her leg.� She has been in a great deal of pain.� They did put in a rod and she can not put any pressure on it for at least six weeks.� We all know Gladys does not like to sit still.� She has never been a quitter, we expect her to be racing around with her walker before Labor Day.

If you can, please take the time to give her a call or send a little note.�
You may also post a comment and we'll make sure that she gets it."

Tandem Health Care of Pensacola
235 West Airport Blvd.
Room 405D - Gladys Wall
Pensacola, Fl. 32505
850-857-5309

Thank you in advance for your support!

-MCD

G~E~O~R~G~I~A~ ~ ~ yes, Atlanta, you are on my mind..!
Won't be long now til May 13th when " Lipstick n Dynamite" our Movie opens there..Ella and I are looking forward to meeting you.

Back in the mid 50s I wrestled for the promoter " Paul ". In the and early 60', it was Ray Gunkel. I have 'fun' memories of water skiing on some beautiful lake there too...in 1978, I gave my horse to a family there in Athens for their young boy to use for 4-H shows.

NOW......I am looking forward to seeing any of you fans from those days of ' Good Ole Wrestling'. I know you will enjoy the Lipstick n Dynamite Movie..It touches on the reasons us 6 girls became lady wrestlers in the days when it was truly considered only a 'man's sport'..Yes, I guess we were feminist....and just didn't know it. We each loved our profession and all of you fans.....so, come out for the movie ..then the Q & A session afterwards..and bring your camera for some 'photos' with us "Living Legends" of Lady Wrestling.

-Penny Banner

My my...it is so great to be here in sunny Los Angeles, California! Being here brings back so many memories. The Great Mae Young & I got here last Friday for Wrestlemania, and have been enjoying ourselves in this weather every since.

We're so happy to be here, supoporting the movie, and speaking with our fans, and fans of the movie. There's so much hard work that went into making this movie, so y'all reading this better come out and see it!

What I think "Lipstick & Dynamite" does, is let people know that wrestling isn't about just being in the limelight - you have to give your heart and soul to the sport if you want to be known for being a good athlete & performer.

The only thing I ever tried to do was to help other girl wrestlers out - I started my own school and began promoting because I didn't like how Billy Wolfe was handling things. In my school I taught more than wrestling, I also taught life skills, skills that I still use today.

This film illustrates what life is about - joy, pain, dissappointment and triumph. If I hadn't of been beat in the ring, early in my career, I wouldn't have gained the skills and perserverence to have beaten others in the squared circle.

Thank you for coming out and supporting this film. Y'all better write back on this blog, and let me know what you think Darlin'!

- The Fabulous Moolah

It's great to be back in LA, my old stomping ground, and where I won the US Championship belt at the Olympic Auditorium! I'm looking forward to the film opening in Los Angeles, and am glad that Moolah & I could be here to support the film, and say hello to our fans.

This movie is great, and I think it does something for 'girl wrestling'; people get to see what the girls had to go through. In fact, it was the Girl Wrestlers that opened up the state of California to the sport!

I'm happy to be here with old friends, The Fabulous Moolah, Ida May Martinez, and Gladys "Killem" Gillem (a little known fact is that I stole her boyfriend when she first moved to Hollywood - but no one could take the bumps and bruises like her!)

Thank you for this film, I know how hard everyone worked on it. It's great to be back here!

-The Great Mae Young

Thanks to all the fans that hung in there during the early years with the girls. You stayed true to us, not knowing how hard the girls worked to entertain all of you.

I promised myself to live clean and decent and act like a lady under circumstances much like a gypsy. Most girls were honest, and for the few who were not, the lies about their power and ability to be better than the rest - let me say - no one and i mean no one - could have gotten where they were - without one or more of the rest putting them there. Rest assured without the other lady wrestlers working with them - they could not stand through a three fall match and could not have drawn flies.

The film illustrates that there are many sides to every story. Like the business of wrestling, some people are always entertaining, even when telling 'true' life stories. Believe me when I say that I am a lady - and a lady would never get into bed with a punchy boxer- nutty as a fruitcake, and whose last address was a mental hospital.

I hope everyone enjoys the film. I really enjoyed making it in- and again I thank you.

-Ella