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- The real-life daughter, Paula Baniszewski, was released from prison and changed her name. She ended up getting a job as a guidance counselor aide in an Iowa school and worked there for 14 years before anyone found out about her real past. She was immediately fired.
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Additional information from the Trivia section: The real-life daughter, Paula Baniszewski, was released from prison and changed her name. She ended up getting a job as a guidance counselor aide in an Iowa school and worked there for 14 years before anyone found out about her real past.
Dec 7, 2007 · The real-life daughter, Paula Baniszewski, was released from prison and changed her name. She ended up getting a job as a guidance counselor aide in an Iowa school and worked there for 14 years before anyone found out about her real past. She was immediately fired.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Tommy O'Haver
- 2007-12-07
Sylvia befriends Gertrude's oldest daughter, Paula Baniszewski (Ari Graynor), who confesses to Sylvia that she is pregnant by her married boyfriend. Sylvia swears not to tell. Shortly after the Likens girls' arrival, Gertrude Baniszewski is upset to find that Lester has not sent the weekly money for the girls' board.
Gertrude Baniszewski, a divorced mother of several children, agrees to take care of two girls, Sylvia and Jennie, while their parents travel with a carnival. Though her eldest daughter is the...
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- Tommy O'haver
- R
- Catherine Keener
Jan 21, 2007 · Set in 1965 in Indianapolis, An American Crime tells the story of Gertrude Baniszewski ( Catherine Keener) who becomes the caretaker of two young children, Jennie ( Hayley McFarland) and Sylvia...
Jan 28, 2019 · It ends with the girl’s abuser getting what she deserved, though in real life Gertrude Baniszewski served time in prison and was paroled in 1985. The Girl Next Door had generally positive ratings from viewers and critics alike. An American Crime, however, was widely panned by
Elliot Page note and Catherine Keener star in this dramatization of the real-life story of Sylvia Likens and Gertrude Baniszewski. In 1965, the troubled Likens parents are forced to leave their teenage daughters Sylvia and Jenny with strangers while they work the season with a traveling carnival.
