References in popular culture

Grant Wood used DAR for the subject matter in his 1932 satirical painting Daughters of Revolution. Wood was dissatisfied with the elitism and class distinction that he thought characterized the group in the 1930s.
The DAR is featured in the 2011 film
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the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help in the scene where Charlotte Phelan, Skeeter’s mother, fires the maid Constantine Bates the African-American maid over a minor issue.
Abbey Bartlet, the first lady in the fictional television drama The West Wing was a member of the DAR. (4×18—Privateers)
Fictional characters Emily Gilmore and Rory Gilmore of the TV series Gilmore Girls are members of the DAR.
Fictional character Lovey Howell of Gilligan’s Island is a member of the DAR.
Fictional character Margaret Houlihan of M*A*S*H is blackballed by her mother-in-law from being a member of the DAR.
In the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, the character Amanda is asked by her daughter if she attended the DAR meeting.
In the 1971 film Fool’s Parade, The Anne Baxter character Cleo, a houseboat Madam, states that she was blackballed by the DAR.
In the musical The Music Man, the lyrics to “Wells Fargo Wagon” included “The D.A.R. have sent a cannon for the courthouse square.”
In Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, the DAR is generally portrayed as “composed of females who spend one half of their waking hours boasting of being descended from the seditious American colonists of 1776, and the other and more ardent half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely the principles for which those ancestors struggled.”
In chapter 39 of Thomas Wolfe’s novel You Can’t Go Home Again, published 1940, German character Franz Heilig lumps the DAR in with salon Communists, the Chamber of Commerce, the American Legion, and business men, claiming that all are similar to the Nazi Party in their basic attitude toward dissent.
At the end of Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America Volume One The Early Years, a member of the DAR (played by June Foray) attempts to lodge a protest about the recording. Stan Freberg unceremoniously slams a door in her face.
In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle.
In the 1960s film Splendor in the Grass, the DAR is mentioned in reference to the sister of Warren Beatty’s character.
Phil Ochs’s song “Love Me, I’m a Liberal” mentions “put[ting] down the old D.A.R, D.A.R.: that’s the Dykes of the American Revolution.”
In The Black Crowes’ song “Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution”.
Walter Mathau’s final line in Grumpy Old Men is “The Daughters of the American Revolution are having a dance at the VFW Hall”.
In the Highlander novel The Element of Fire, the DAR are mentioned as being in Nantucket, MA for a Valentine’s Day celebration in 1897.
In Pan Am, an historical TV drama, Laura (Margot Robbie) and Kate (Kelli Garner) Cameron’s mother is a DAR member.
The band Jets to Brazil has the lyric “daughters of the revolution you’re freezing in your furs” in the song “Lemon Yellow Black”