<p>"Harold and Kumar go to White Castle"- Princeton
"MASH" - Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould recall playing against each other on the gridiron for Dartmouth and Harvard.</p>
<p>The Graduate was SUPPOSED to be at Berkeley but was actually filmed at UCLA. They even had the guy going the wrong way over the Bay Bridge to get to Berkeley. Otherwise, a fine movie</p>
<p>Occidental’s beautiful campus and proximity to Hollywood has made it a natural movie location beginning with MGM’s The Cup of Fury in 1920. Their film credits include:</p>
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Horse Feathers (1932) with the Marx Brothers
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Pigskin Parade (1936) with Judy Garland (her screen debut) and Betty Grable
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Second Chorus (1941) with Fred Astaire (“the worst movie I ever made”)
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That Hagen Girl (1947) with Shirley Temple and Ronald Reagan
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Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) with Joan Crawford and Robert Young
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Pat and Mike (1952) with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
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Tall Story (1960) with Jane Fonda (her screen debut) and Anthony Perkins
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Take Her, She’s Mine (1963) with Jimmy Stewart
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The Impossible Years (1968) with David Niven
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The One and Only (1978) with Henry Winkler
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
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Real Genius (1985) with Val Kilmer
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Clueless (1995) with Alicia Silverstone
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Don't Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) with the Wayan Brothers
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Jurassic Park III (2001) with Sam Neill
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Orange County (2002) with Colin Hanks and Jack Black
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<p>TV credits include “Dragnet” and “The West Wing” (2002), “Beverly Hills 90210” (1993-94) and a host of other shows and made-for-TV movies, including “Lou Grant,” “Remington Steele,” and “Cannon.”</p>
<p>powergrid1990....GILMORE GIRLS!</p>
<p>Williams wasn't mentioned in The Graduate, but the guy who wrote the book that the movie was based on was a Williams grad.</p>
<p>U of Santa Clara: Bend it Like Beckham.</p>
<p>One of the oddest college references is in "The Sun Also Rises" ...they are fishing and they get in this bizarre conversation in which Loyola, Holy Cross, and Fordham (and possibly others?) are mentioned. All are Jesuit colleges.</p>
<p>To a previous post: Legally Blonde was not actually filmed at Harvard Law School. It was filmed at the University of Southern California =D</p>
<p>'Hanna and Her Sisters' extensively filmed at Columbia.
'Forest Gump;' Gump is an All-American at Alabama/Tuscaloosa</p>
<p>'Eric,' a 1970s TV movie about a college soccer player with terminal cancer, filmed partly at U of Washington in Seattle.</p>
<p>'John Goldfarb, Please Come;' Richard Crenna at Notre Dame</p>
<p>I think the top 10 schools with most mentions are (not in any particular order):</p>
<p>1) Harvard - because, hey, its Harvard
2) NYU - NY location doesn't hurt, especially in its name (the "cool" school)
3) Columbia - NY location and ivy status
4) MIT - Great "geek" reputation
5) Stanford - Posh campus and elite status, big time name appeal in California
6) UCLA/USC - Local favorites make it easy
7) Princeton - Old establishment and privileged ambiance
8) Wellesley - Probably most well known all women school helps
9) Yale - See #7
10) Georgetown - DC location </p>
<p>Interesting that I couldn't think of any schools in the midwest/south that feature prominently in pop culture, or even the big-time sports schools like Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, UNC, Florida</p>
<p>While I wouldn't put it anywhere near the top ten, "Slap Shot" was filmed at Colgate University's Starr Rink and "Puddle Cruiser" the first effort by the Colgate grads who gave (inflicted?) us Super Trooper and Beerfest, was also shot at Colgate.</p>
<p>No one here watches Law & Order? Many episodes have featured their fictitious Hudson University, which is, of course, Columbia. And as others have posted, Columbia is in a few Woody Allen films and Spiderman.</p>
<p>Part of "Mighty Ducks III" was filmed at Carleton College.</p>
<p>Don't know if anyone's been paying attention to the movies in the past few years, but the United States Naval Academy has a whole movie dedicated to it, called "Annapolis", maybe you've heard of it.</p>
<p>Also, the movie "Patriot Games" with Harrison Ford as well as all the books in the series mentions that CIA man Jack Ryan is a professor at the Naval Academy.</p>
<p>JAG the show had a lot of scenes at the Naval Academy as well.</p>
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<p>1) Harvard - because, hey, its Harvard
2) NYU - NY location doesn't hurt, especially in its name (the "cool" school)
3) Columbia - NY location and ivy status
4) MIT - Great "geek" reputation
5) Stanford - Posh campus and elite status, big time name appeal in California
6) UCLA/USC - Local favorites make it easy
7) Princeton - Old establishment and privileged ambiance
8) Wellesley - Probably most well known all women school helps
9) Yale - See #7
10) Georgetown - DC location
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<p>I couldn't think of mentions of USC, UCLA, Wellesley, Georgetown, MIT, Columbia. To be honest, this is a pretty useless list if you don't mention the films/shows. Oh wait, I just thought of a mention of MIT in "Judgement Day."</p>
<p>I don't think the op was asking for individual movies but rather the "TOP 10 SCHOOLS," etc.</p>
<p>As for my top of the head list, there are countless movies/shows where Harvard (I am betting most popular), NYU & Columbia have been featured prominently or a character is a student there. </p>
<p>The OP wasn't looking for a list of every movie that mentioned a college, in which case there would be a million--although this thread has taken that approach. Rather, he/she wanted what we believe would be the schools with the most movies/ shows.</p>
<p>If you are looking for where TV and Movies are filmed, try the Internet Movie Database (The</a> Internet Movie Database (IMDb))</p>
<p>Shows:</p>
<p>USC with 96
UCLA with 71
Harvard with 31
MIT with 7</p>
<p>I'd guess more of the LA universities might also have high numbers, as it's cheaper to film closer to home. USC stands in for Harvard and other red brick campuses. UCLA alos stands in for red brick, and even Stanford.</p>
<p>Princeton: Cinderella Story (Hillary Duff's character ends up there)</p>
<p>Columbia: Will and Grace (Will went to law school there)</p>
<p>American University in Paris - DaVinci Code</p>
<p>I thought Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan attended Catholic University?</p>
<p>northwestern in the devil wears prada</p>
<p>Fordham University:</p>
<p>Alan Alda alumnus. Denzel Washington alumnus. </p>
<p>Movies: </p>
<p>Awake
A Beautiful Mind (movie about Princeton but filmed at Fordham)
A Bronx Tale
Center Stage
The Exorcist
Rev. William O'Malley, a Jesuit and professor at Fordham Prep, played Father Dyer in the 1973 film The Exorcist. The film's language lab scene was filmed in Keating Hall, and the bedroom scene was filmed in Hughes Hall.
The Gambler
The Iron Major
Kinsey
Love Story
Quiz Show
The Verdict </p>
<p>Television
Naked City (episode: Tombstone for a Derelict, 4/5/61; then-unknown Robert Redford plays a Neo-Nazi student) </p>
<p>Music videos
"What's Luv?" by Ashanti and Fat Joe</p>