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A young woman, named Helen, ventures into a world of prostitution to keep her feelings for her boyfriend, Bob, alive, while Helen seeks company with a sleazy movie producer Bob, who hooks her up with a local madame, named Sylvia, while Helen's roommate, Wanda, suspects something wrong and urges Helen to seek psychiatric help there the ...
1h 19m. Synopsis. Although Helen enjoys a chaste relationship with her boyfriend, Bob, she cannot accept his marriage proposal because she secretly enjoys being picked up by strangers. One evening in a cocktail lounge, Helen meets Clark, a procurer, who convinces her to try prostitution, arguing that she should be reimbursed for her sexual favors.
- Al Dempsey
- Valerie Hawkins
Sylvia's Girls (1965) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- How Sylvia Likens Came Under The Care of Gertrude Baniszewski
- What Happened to Sylvia Likens Inside Her New Home
- An Entire Neighborhood Joins Gertrude Baniszewski in The Torture
- The Brutal Death of Sylvia Likens
- How Gertrude Baniszewski and Her Children Eluded Justice
Sylvia Likens’ parents were both carnival workers and were therefore on the road more often than not. They struggled to make ends meet as her father Lester had only an eighth-grade education and a total of five children to care for. Jenny was quiet and withdrawn with a limp from polio. Sylvia was more confident and went by the nickname “Cookie” and...
For the first two weeks at the Baniszewski’s, Sylvia and her sister were treated kindly enough, though Gertrude’s oldest daughter, 17-year-old Paula Baniszewski, seemed to butt heads with Sylvia often. Then one week their father’s payment came in late. “I took care of you two bitches for two weeks for nothing,” Gertrude spat at Sylvia and Jenny. Sh...
Gertrude spread every story she could imagine to get the local kids to join in on the beatings. She told her daughter that Sylvia had called her a whore and got her daughter’s friends to come over and beat her up for it. Later during the trial, some of the kids were open about how Gertrude had recruited them. One teenage girl named Anna Siscoerecal...
“I’m going to die,” Sylvia told her sister three days before she did. “I can tell.” Gertrude could tell too and so she forced Sylvia to write a note in which she told her parents that she’d run away. Sylvia was also forced to write that she’d met up with a group of boys and given them sexual favors and afterward, they’d beaten her and mutilated her...
Gertrude spent 20 years behind bars. There was no question about her guilt. The autopsy backed up everything Jenny told the police: Sylvia Likens had died slowly and painfully over several months. In 1971, both Gertrude and Paula were re-tried to the result that Gertrude was again found guilty. Paula pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of voluntary m...
A young woman, named Helen, ventures into a world of prostitution to keep her feelings for her boyfriend, Bob, alive, while Helen seeks company with a sleazy movie producer Bob, who hooks her up...
Sylvia's Girls (1965) Directed by William Kerwin Genres - Comedy , Drama | Release Date - Jul 7, 1965 | Run Time - 79 min. |
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