However, because it didn""t show in Los Angeles until its general release that January, it was ineligible for awards in 1942, and competed in 1943.It""s the best way, really!" Swanbeck promised that ""Miss Hall""s"" (Nyah) efforts would be rewarded with an expungement of her criminal record, and then asked where she might be located.Outside on the lawn, Margaret "Maggie" (Elizabeth Taylor), Brick""s beautiful young wife, criticizes her brother-in-law Gooper Pollitt (Jack Carson) and his shrewish, fertile wife Mae (Madeleine Sherwood) for allowing one of their five obnoxious children ("no-neck monsters") o dip her hands into the ice cream.Robie: Naah, no.I was a member of an American trapeze act in the circus that traveled in Europe.It folded and I was stranded, so I put my agility to a more rewarding purpose.Hughson: You have no other defense.Robie: No.For what it""s worth, I only stole from people who wouldn""t go hungry...Hughson: I take it you were a sort of modern Robin Hood.I mean, you gave away most of the proceeds of your crimes.Robie: Kept everything myself.Well, let""s face it, I was an out-and-out hief, like you.Hughson: Steady, old man.Robie: No, no, wait a minute.Have you ever taken an ashtray from a hotel or a towel?Hughson: Souvenirs, they expect that.Robie: You""re given an expense allowance to pay for all the meals you eat on the job.Right? But this meal is free.Now, are you going o deduct the price of a lunch from your expense account? Well, of course you""re not.Its sole losing nomination was for Best Picture (it lost to Laurence Olivier""sHamlet).With his award, Huston became the first o direct his own father to an Oscar, and it was the first instance of a son and father winning in the same year.