Rosemary's Baby is an Academy Award-winning 1968 horror film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Mia Farrow. The film is based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name. Rosemary's Baby was Robert Evans' first big hit while running Paramount Pictures. He was closely involved in the production, and numerous times had to deal with Mia Farrow's precarious relationship with then-husband Frank Sinatra. Farrow and Sinatra divorced soon after the film was completed. Ruth Gordon won the 1968 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as the nosy neighbor Minnie Castevet. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 405 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (510 × 755 pixel, file size: 37 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Film poster for Rosemarys Baby Source For an article about a film, the original poster is arguably one of the most important images that could... Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is an Academy Award-winning film director, writer, actor, and producer. ... William Castle (April 24, 1914–May 31, 1977) born William Schloss, was an American film director, producer, and actor. ... Ira Levin (born August 27, 1929 in New York) is an American novelist, playwright and songwriter. ... Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is an Academy Award-winning film director, writer, actor, and producer. ... Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945) is an American actress. ... John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929–February 3, 1989) was a Greek American actor, screenwriter, and director. ... Ruth Gordon (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American actress and screenwriter who was perhaps best known for her role as the oversolicitous neighbor in Roman Polanskis adaptation of Ira Levins novel Rosemarys Baby, for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Supporting... Sidney Blackmer (July 13, 1895–October 6, 1973) was an American actor. ... Maurice Evans (1901 - 1989) was an English actor. ... Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning sixty-two years. ... Angela Dorian , May 1968 Victoria Vetri ( better known as Angela Dorian) ( born September 26, 1944 in San Francisco, California ) is an American model and actress. ... Patsy Kelly was an American film comedienne, who was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 12, 1910. ... Diminutive character actor Elisha Cook Jr. ... Emmaline Henry Emmaline Henry (November 1, 1928 – October 8, 1979) was a American actress best known for playing Amanda Bellows on the hit 60s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. ... Krzysztof Komeda Krzysztof Komeda (b. ... William A. Fraker (born on September 29, 1923 in Los Angeles, California), is a cinematographer, film director, and producer. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Spoiler warning: This film picks up around 8 years after the events of Rosemarys Baby. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The year 1968 in film involved some significant events. ... “Horror Movie” redirects here. ... Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is an Academy Award-winning film director, writer, actor, and producer. ... Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945) is an American actress. ... Ira Levin (born August 27, 1929 in New York) is an American novelist, playwright and songwriter. ... For the film based on the novel, see Rosemarys Baby (film). ... Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera June 29, 1930 in New York, New York) is an American film producer best known for his work on Rosemarys Baby, Love Story, The Godfather and Chinatown as well as his hedonistic lifestyle and seven marriages. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... Sinatra redirects here. ... Ruth Gordon (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American actress and screenwriter who was perhaps best known for her role as the oversolicitous neighbor in Roman Polanskis adaptation of Ira Levins novel Rosemarys Baby, for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Supporting... Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is an accolade given by a group of film or theatre professionals in recognition of the work of supporting and character actors. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

A sequel titled Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby aired as a made-for-TV movie in 1976 starring Patty Duke as Rosemary Woodhouse, and Ruth Gordon reprising her role of Minnie Castevet. Spoiler warning: This film picks up around 8 years after the events of Rosemarys Baby. ... Patty Duke (born December 14, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actress of the stage and screen. ...

Plot summary

Mia Farrow as Rosemary Woodhouse.

The story follows Rosemary Woodhouse, a bright but somewhat naïve young woman, and her husband Guy, a struggling actor, after they move into a New York City apartment. Their new neighbors are an elderly couple, the Castavets, who seem meddlesome and a bit absurd, but harmless. The Woodhouses want to have a baby; on the night they plan to try to conceive, Rosemary has dizzy spells and passes out, experiencing a dream or vision that she is being raped by a demonic presence (see incubus). Image File history File links Roseb6. ... Image File history File links Roseb6. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The demon Satan In folklore, mythology, and religion, a demon is a supernatural being that is generally described as an evil spirit, but is also depicted to be good in some instances. ... Incubus, 1870 This article is about the type of demon called an Incubus. For other uses, see Incubus. ...

A few weeks later, she finds out that she is pregnant. Guy lands a small but noticeable part in a play when the man who was originally cast goes suddenly and inexplicably blind. For the first three months of her pregnancy, Rosemary suffers agonizing abdominal pains, loses weight instead of gaining it, and craves meats such as "blue" steak (barely seared on both sides), and raw chicken liver. A steak (from Old Norse steik, roast) is a slice from a larger piece of meat, typically from red meat like beef, or fish. ... Roast Chicken Not including 32% bones. ...

Guy is cast in a sitcom that garners him even more attention, and a number of film studios are eager to sign him up. Following clues left to her by an older friend, who goes into a coma and dies before revealing the whole story, Rosemary comes to suspect that her neighbors are part of a Satanic cult with designs on her as-yet-unborn child, and that her husband is working with them in exchange for his career advances. A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Satanism can refer to a number of belief systems depending on the user and contexts. ... This article does not discuss cult in its original meaning. ...

An increasingly disturbed and unstable Rosemary becomes convinced that her neighbors plan to use her child as a sacrifice to Satan and the efforts of her husband and neighbors to dissuade her from this idea are in vain. At the end of the movie, it is revealed that Rosemary was almost exactly right when Minnie and Roman tell her the child is the son of Satan and that all of Guy's recent success has been due to the deal he made with them to let Satan father their child. At the movie's end Rosemary sneaks next door to kill the demon child but instead begins to mother it leaving the audience to draw their own conclusions about the future of Rosemary's baby. This article is about the concept of Satan. ...

Casting

• Polanski originally wanted Robert Redford to play Guy, but Redford was currently filming Downhill Racer (1969). Jack Nicholson had also been briefly considered for the role of Guy. Polański originally offered the role of Guy to Warren Beatty, but he turned it down saying, "it wasn't big enough." Laurence Harvey had also begged Paramount to consider him, while other names like Richard Chamberlain, Robert Wagner and James Fox were thrown around as well.^[1] Burt Reynolds also reportedly turned down the role of Guy.^[2]
• It has been rumored that Anton LaVey appears in the film as Satan and was an unofficial technical advisor.^[3] However, in fact the role of Satan was played by Clay Tanner and no technical advisor was used.^{[4][5][6][7][8]} Some sources hold that the rumor originated when it was discovered that actress Sharon Tate, who was later murdered by the Manson Family, was involved in the film's production.^[9]
• Jane Fonda was offered the role of Rosemary but turned it down to film Barbarella (1968) in Europe. Tuesday Weld was second choice (and Polański's preference) but refused to test for the role [1].

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References in popular culture

• The band Twink covered the theme song using a variety of toy pianos.

• Today Is the Day uses a (or several) sample(s) from this movie near the end of the song "Never Answer The Phone" off the album "Sadness Will Prevail"

• The theme song to the film is covered by the band Fantomas in their album "Directors Cut"

• The song Evil by Interpol pays homage to the film ("Rosemary/Heaven restores you in life...").

• Hardcore band Charles Bronson uses several sound clips from the film.

• Laibach's 1992 Album "Kapital" samples the film on two tracks: "Kinderreich" (sampling Mia Farrow's vocals from the film's theme song) and "Sponsored By Mars" (sampling Maurice Evan's shouts of "Typhoon! Typhoon!" from the scene where Rosemary dreams she is aboard a ship.)

• Other musical references to the film are by Deep Purple on "Why didn't Rosemary?", by Frumious Bandersnatch on "Rosemary's Baby" and by Samsas Traum on "Kamikaze!".

• In the action movie-spoofing film, Last Action Hero, when Jack Slater and Danny are about to be killed by Benedict on the rooftop of a cinema, he mentions a christening for Rosemary's Baby as one of the things he can do with the magic ticket he stole from Danny.

• Outkast references Rosemary's Baby in the song Git Up, Git Out on their 1994 album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik: "I used to hang out with my daddy's brothers, I call them my uncles. They taught me how to smoke herb, I followed them when they ran numbers. So in a sense I was Rosemary's baby".

• Chicago electronic duo Microfilm released their song 'What Have You Done to Its Eyes?' on their 2007 debut album After Dark; the song lyrics are inspired by the film and Mia Farrow's personal life at the time; the title is a reference to Rosemary's famous line in the final scene of the film; samples of an interview with Ms. Farrow from that time period can be heard in the song.

• In the 1990's sitcom Roseanne, an entire episode of the ill-fated final season is a parody of Rosemary's Baby. Roseanne finds herself in a strange dream-like state where her pregnant daughter, Darlene, takes the place of Rosemary and has Satan's son. Roseanne demands to speak to the baby's father, and ends up speaking to Satan himself, who has taken the form of Roseanne.

• In the popular romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally, Harry and Sally are playing Pictionary with their friends, where Sally draws a picture of a large mouth with numerous arrows shooting from it. Seemingly no one is able to guess what it is, and Harry shouts "Rosemary's baby!" as a guess. It ultimately turns out the answer is 'baby talk'.

• The Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper song, "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)," contains dialogue from the film. The phrases exlcaimed by Sidney Blackmer during the film's climax -- "Satan lives!" and "Hail Satan!" -- can be heard in the song.

• In the pilot episode of Gilmore Girls, Rory makes a statement about Dean, using context from the movie, to which Dean replies "Rosemary's Baby. That's a great movie"

• In a season five episode of sitcom Boy Meets World, while living next to a supposed clan of witches, Shawn approaches one, saying "So, Rosemary...How's the baby?"

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Trivia

• In the movie, Rosemary meets a neighbor, Terry Gionoffrio, in the laundry room. She stares at her and then apologizes saying, "I thought you were Victoria Vetri, the actress." Terry responds by saying, "a lot of people think I'm Victoria, but I don't see the resemblance." In fact, the actress who played Terry is Victoria Vetri (credited as Angela Dorian), the actress and 1968 Playmate of the Year. This scene is described as "one of the in-jokes of the movie".^[10]
• Producer William Castle makes a cameo appearance as the impatient man waiting right outside the phone booth while Rosemary pretends to be speaking with someone on the other end of the line as she anxiously awaits a call-back from her previous gynecologist (played by Charles Grodin).
• Tony Curtis played the voice part of Don Baumgard, when Rosemary calls him on the phone to inquire about his condition. Reportedly, Mia Farrow did not know that the actor on the phone was her good friend Tony Curtis. [2]. Polański wanted it to be kept secret from her so as to enhance the impression in the scene of Rosemary's confusion. In the scene, Mia Farrow truly shows confusion, as she tries to recall why the voice on the phone sounds so familiar.
• Some make comparisons of the film's Satanic cult elements to the true-life torture and murder of Sharon Tate (Polański's wife) by the Charles Manson cult followers, just one year after the movie's release.^[11] Tate, who was pregnant at the time of her murder, was two weeks away from her due date.
• Maurice Evans played Rosemary's concerned friend "Hutch" who is hexed and murdered by the cult. Evans played Samantha's warlock father on the TV sitcom Bewitched. The sitcom would make several coy references in 1968-1969 to Rosemary's Baby as a new movie about witches "which show us as quite evil".^[12]

The Dakota building

• Outside shots of the movie's Bramford apartment building were in fact The Dakota, the future home of Mia Farrow's friend John Lennon, and his wife and son, Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon.
• Mia Farrow performs the theme song to the film.
• In The Simpsons 1999 episode Wild Barts Can't Be Broken, the theme song to the fictional horror film "The Bloodening" is actually that of "Rosemary's Baby."
• The sequel novel "Son of Rosemary," also written by Ira Levin, was published in 1997.
• This film was #23 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments for its scene where Rosemary is raped by Satan.
• Makes reference to popular stage actors such as Forbes Robertson, Helena Modjeska and Minnie Fiske.

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References

External links

• Rosemary's Baby at the Internet Movie Database
• Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby at the Internet Movie Database
• Dialogue Transcript. Drew's Script-O-Rama. Retrieved on 2007-04-01.