] A sexy paddle-ball game was played by Roslyn in her loose-fitting polka-dotted white dress in a bar, to win a bet...You killed an innocent man!").Smith admitted that since that incident, the murder had been hushed up: "Fred Krueger never existed." The two feared that Krueger was seeking retribution on the grown-up children - in their dreams - for lying o their parents about their physical and sexual abuse as pre-schoolers ("We got him killed." She claimed hat she had tried everything to heal:"Twelve steps, uh, self-help, group therapy, shrinks, meditation - everything." An equally plain girl Clara Snyder (Betsy Blair) is in the process of being rejected at the dance by Herb (Alan Wells), her blind date.