Gladys Gillem

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Gladys Gillem
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Ring name(s)	Gladys "Killem" Gillem
Born	January 6, 1921^[1]
Debut	1942^[1]

Gladys Wall also known as Gladys "Kill 'Em" Gillem (born January 6, 1921) is a retired professional wrestler. She currently resides in Pensacola, Florida.

Gillem began her wrestling career in 1942 at the age of nineteen in carnival shows. Besides wrestling men and women Gillem would wrestle bears and alligators as part of her act.

Gillem would eventually find work touring with promoter Billy Wolfe's troop of women wrestlers. In this stage of her career Wolfe used Gillem exclusively as a jobber. She would act in this capacity until her retirement in 1962. After leaving wrestling Gladys Gillem would go on to become a lion tamer.

Gladys Gillem gained additional notability when she was one of the focal interviewees for Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling, a documentary about the early days of women's wrestling in North America.

She, along with Mildred Burke, were referred to several times during Mae Young's WWE Hall of Fame induction speech on March 29th, 2008. Young told a story about getting into a fight in a hotel with Gillem hours before they were scheduled to have a match at the local arena.