Is the movie “Animal House” really based on the Alpha Delta fraternity at Dartmouth?
The 1978 movie “Animal House” was based on a series of stories that appeared in the National Lampoon, written by Chris Miller ’63, a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, now Alpha Delta. Miller, along with Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney, adapted his National Lampoon stories into the script that became “Animal House.” But Miller admits that the script for the movie wasn’t really based on actual incidents at Dartmouth: “ … No horse in the Dean’s office; no parade destruction; no courtroom hearing; no pot smoking with a professor; no midnight peep by Bluto or anyone else; and no one ever took away our bar or our cow. But of course the whole premise was based on my fraternity’s exploits, so in that sense the fraternity itself is my contribution. “ Read the full interview here.
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