In Popular Culture
- The magazine is mentioned in numerous films, including The Shawshank Redemption (1994), A Christmas Story, Crazy in Alabama, An Affair to Remember and The Hoax.
- On The Simpsons episode "Bart on the Road", a marquee in Branson, Missouri advertises an Andy Williams show with a quote from Look magazine ("Wow! He's still got it!"), although Look magazine had folded 25 years earlier.
- An episode of I Love Lucy had a Look photographer coming to Lucy and Ricky's apartment only to have the shoot spoiled by Lucy.
- In Season One Episode Five of Mad Men, on a comment about Don Draper's secretary Peggy Olson by his wife, Betty Draper he remarks, "Have you been reading the Look magazine?".
- The magazine is a major plot point in the 1953 film I Love Melvin starring Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds.
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