Barbara Stanwyck

Like another well-known Brooklyn-ite, Barbra Streisand, she never bothered to try disguising her origins, and they never mattered. Not even in Double Indemnity when, asked by Fred MacMurray, "Where did you pick up this tea drinking? You're not English, are you," she replies, "No, Califawnian. Bawn right here in Los Angeles."

I once worked with a lady from Brooklyn who had a theory about L.A. that was just as snarky as MacMurray's reply to Stanwyck ("They say native Californians all come from Iowa"): "After you've lived here seven years, you become a native."