Sorren commented about Rosa being different from others:Mrs.Sorren: "The funny thing, even when we were in high school, Rosa was always different from everybody else.With nervous energy and overstated hyperbole in her emotional speech, she shows off her green nail polish (calling it "divine decadence") and love of cigarettes.Plot SynopsisAs the film""s prologue opens, young Rocky and Jerry are on a fire escape, teasing neighborhood girls below, including one in pigtails named Laury Martin (Marilyn Knowlden as youth, Ann Sheridan as adult)."Denny (sneering): "I""ve been looking at her kind ever since my voice changed."Explaining why she was restless (partly from the tiger outside - "that alley cat yodelling out there"), Vantine entered the room and told Mac and Denny:"Don""t mind me, boys.