Appearances in Film
- In the 1995 film Die Hard with a Vengeance, Bonwit's Fifth Avenue store was bombed by villain Simon Gruber in the film's opening sequence. Bonwit had been out of business for five years by that time.
- In the 1979 film Rocky II, Rocky Balboa shops at Bonwit's store in Philadelphia as part of a spending spree sequence. Rocky purchases an expensive leather jacket (with a tiger design on the back), a fur coat for his wife Adrian and expensive wristwatches for his brother-in-law Paulie.
- In 2009, Bonwit Teller was written into a scene on Mad Men, a television series that explores the world of advertising. Peter Campbell, advertising account executive, returns a Bonwit Teller dress to their 5th Avenue store, where he discovers that Joan Holloway, a former co-worker, is now employed there as a sales clerk.
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