Connecticut College in Film and Culture
- Connecticut College was mentioned on the television program The Office (in the episode "Night Out") Rainn Wilson's character wishes the Jersey State women's basketball team luck in a game against Connecticut College. One of the show's writers, Lee Eisenberg, is a Conn College graduate.
- In the AMC series Mad Men (in the episode "Red in the Face"), Pete Campbell's friend says "Connecticut College for Women, indeed..." in reference to Pete's attractive cousin.
- The protagonist in the film The Visitor is a fictional Connecticut College economics professor.
- In The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike, a character remembers "when after my mother died my father sent me east to Connecticut College for Women, everything so lush and old."
- In the sitcom series Kate & Allie, both women had gone to Connecticut College and sometimes wore a Conn College sweatshirt.
- The opening scenes of the 1966 film The Group (featuring Candice Bergen), were filmed at Connecticut College. The film is based on a book about a private women's college.
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