Wanamaker's - Wanamaker's in The Movies and Theatre

Wanamaker's in The Movies and Theatre

• In the musical number "Marry the Man Today", from Guys and Dolls, Wanamaker's is mentioned.
  • Lyrics:

At Wanamaker's and Saks and Klein's

A lesson I've been taught

You can't get alterations on a dress you haven't bought

• In Brian De Palma's 1981 film Blow Out, John Travolta's character, Jack Terry, crashes a Jeep into a display window of Wanamaker's after driving through City Hall center courtyard in a chase scene.
• In 1987, Wanamaker's flagship Philadelphia store was featured, under the name "Prince & Co.", in the film comedy Mannequin and its sequel Mannequin Two: On the Move.
• Wanamaker's was also featured in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys, though its appearance is anachronistic, as the film is set in 1996, a year after the chain had been folded into Hecht's. Wanamaker's had still been trading under that name when the movie was filmed in 1994-1995.
• Philip Barry's 1938 play The Philadelphia Story includes the following dialogue: Liz: "Use the word 'Wanamaker' in a sentence." Mike: "OK, I'll bite." Liz: "I met a girl this morning. I hate her but I --." Mike: "All right, I get you. But you're wrong."
• In the musical number "Come Up to My Place", from the Broadway musical On the Town, Wanamaker's in mentioned.
  • Lyrics:

"Let's go to my place!"

"Let's go to Cleopatra's Needle!"

"Let's go to my place!"

"Let's see Wanamaker's store!"

• From 1918 to 1919, actor James Cagney worked in the New York City Wanamaker's Store as a package wrapper, while trying to get his Broadway career started. A fellow clerk with whom he was friends told him about his very first audition, which he went out for (and got) and shortly after quit Wanamaker's for the theatrical profession.
• The 1977 film Nasty Habits, starring Glenda Jackson, Melina Mercouri, and Rip Torn, has a scene set in Wanamakers, where a blackmail money exchange takes place in the "ladies' loo at Wanamaker's". The scene opens to opening bars of Beethoven's fifth (supposedly) being played on the Grand organ, while the camera pans the Grand Court.
• In the 6th-season Sopranos episode, "Moe N’ Joe", when Johnny Sack is being told his plea arrangement by his lawyer, Johnny tells him that he met his wife, Ginny, at Wanamaker's, where she worked at the tie counter.
• In the movie "In Her Shoes (movie)", while working on her resume, Maggie tells her sister that she worked at Wanamaker's in the fragrance and accessories departments.
• In the first episode of the seventh season of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (FX Network), "Frank's Pretty Woman" (2011), Mac suggests to Dennis over a meal of chimichangas that while on the way to Frank and Roxy's impromptu wedding, "we fire down to John Wanamaker's and get ourselves a couple of Tommy Bahama shirts".