Her role was as the passionate, sexually-frustrated, feline Maggie ("The Cat" in the film""s itle) whose advances and lustful sensuality are thwarted by the unloving temperament of her alcoholic, injured, impotent, and apathetic husband Brick (Paul Newman) who is still suffering from the suicidal death of his (homosexual) friend Skipper, and also has suffered a broken ankle.Strangelove, or...(1964)), and Best Supporting Actor for Jack Nicholson in one of his earlier, widely-praised roles as a drunken young lawyer.Also worried by this turn of events (she told her father: "Stuff it"), Lacy caught up with Lois, apologized, and revealed that she cared for Clark ("Have you heard from Clark?").In the hallway as a crowd gathered around her, she also described how she saw little girls singing: "One, two, Freddy""s coming for you.