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=== Film === Several feature films reference Mount Holyoke. Prominent among them are: *''[[Dirty Dancing]]'' (1987), which is set at a summer resort in the [[Catskill Mountains|Catskills]] in the summer of 1963. The [[protagonist]], Frances "Baby" Houseman (named after Mount Holyoke graduate [[Frances Perkins]]), plans to attend Mount Holyoke in the fall to study the economics of underdeveloped countries and then later to enter the [[Peace Corps]]. The film is screened annually for first-year students.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blog.mtholyoke.edu/thegates/a-very-mount-holyoke-move-in-day|title=A very Mount Holyoke move-in day|last=College|first=Mount Holyoke|access-date=2018-11-02|language=en-us|archive-date=December 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203204509/https://blog.mtholyoke.edu/thegates/a-very-mount-holyoke-move-in-day|url-status=dead}}</ref> *''National Lampoon's [[Animal House]]'' (1978), which is set in 1962. It satirizes a common practice up until the mid-1970s when women attending [[Seven Sisters (colleges)|Seven Sister colleges]] were connected with, or to, students at [[Ivy League]] schools. In the film, fraternity brothers from Delta house of the fictional [[List of fictional schools#Film|Faber College]] (based on [[Dartmouth College]]<ref>{{cite interview|title=Live from the Headlines β Interview with John Landis|last=Landis |first=John |subject-link=John Landis |interviewer=Soledad O'Brien |url=http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/29/se.09.html |date=2003-08-29 |work=Live from the Headlines |publisher=CNN |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311042218/http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/29/se.09.html |archive-date=2007-03-11 }}</ref>) take a road trip to the fictional [[List of fictional schools#Film|Emily Dickinson College]] (Mount Holyoke College).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://notesfrommynotebooks.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-favorite-movies-whats-up-doc.html|title=Notes From My Notebooks|date=2013-02-24}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/427a2a42-5e61-4b2c-adc7-be0c96261638|title=New math. Mount Holyoke.|website=Yarn}}</ref>
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