..Hey, I got one of your birds.I recognize him by the band...He flew into my coop.You want him?Terry keeps pigeons in coops on his tenement apartment""s rooftop, and soon convinces potential informant Joey to meet him on the roof.Her middle-aged mother Elaine (Brooke Bundy), arriving home with a gentleman date downstairs, burst into the room and demanded that her daughter go to sleep, although 16 year-old Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette) protested, claiming she was still experiencing "awful dreams.He senses her loneliness like his own and compliments her about how she would look good in one of the Eastman swimsuits on one of her rare days off:George: You lonely all of the time?Alice: Not on weekdays.All the sets (both exterior and interior) were constructed to recede slightly in the distance, to produce further illusions of depth.In the same year, he also starred inRandom Harvest (1942)and received his third Best Actor nomination (he lost the Oscar to James Cagney inYankee Doodle Dandy (1942)).