The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 70 to 61
Winters played a character so annoying in 1951’s A Place in the Sun that you were actually rooting for Montgomery Clift to push her out of that goddamn boat. Such was her talent; she was a serious actress. Though born in St. Louis, Winters and family moved to Brooklyn when she was three, many years before she would win two Academy Awards and become a memorable fixture in classic films, making a place for herself in movie history with roles in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter, and more, less obviously annoying parts.
