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Rosemary’s Baby
Theatrical release poster by Philip Gips
Directed byRoman Polanski
Screenplay byRoman Polanski
Based onRosemary’s Baby
by Ira Levin
Produced byWilliam Castle
StarringMia FarrowJohn CassavetesRuth GordonSidney BlackmerMaurice EvansRalph Bellamy
CinematographyWilliam A. Fraker
Edited bySam O’SteenBob Wyman
Music byKrzysztof Komeda
Production
company		William Castle Enterprises[1]
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dateJune 12, 1968
Running time137 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.2 million[2]
Box office$33.4 million[2]

Rosemary’s Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on Ira Levin‘s 1967 novel. The film stars Mia Farrow as the titular Rosemary, a newlywed living in Manhattan who becomes pregnant, but soon begins to suspect that her neighbors have sinister intentions regarding her and her baby. The film’s supporting cast includes John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Patsy Kelly, Angela Dorian, and Charles Grodin in his feature film debut.

The film deals with themes related to paranoia, women’s liberation, Catholicism, and the occult.[3] While it is primarily set in New York City, the majority of principal photography for Rosemary’s Baby took place in Los Angeles throughout late 1967. The film was released on June 12, 1968, by Paramount Pictures. It was a box office success, grossing over $30 million in the United States, and received immense critical acclaim, ultimately placing second behind The Lion in Winter on the annual Film Daily year-end poll in 1968.[4] The film was nominated for several accolades, including multiple Golden Globe Award nominations and two Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actress (for Ruth Gordon) and the Golden Globe in the same category. Since its release, Rosemary’s Baby has been widely regarded as one of the greatest horror films of all time. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

The movie successfully launched a franchise, which includes a 1976 made-for-TV sequel, Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby, a 2014 miniseries adaptation sharing the same title, and a streaming exclusive prequel, Apartment 7A (2024).

Plot

In 1965, Rosemary Woodhouse and her husband, stage actor Guy, tour the Bramford, a large Renaissance Revival apartment building in Manhattan. They notice the previous tenant, an elderly woman who recently died, displayed odd behaviors, such as moving a heavy dresser, blocking a linen closet. Despite warnings from Rosemary’s therapist Edward “Hutch” Hutchins, who says the Bramford building has had several concerning strange occurrences happen, Rosemary and Guy move in.

In the basement laundry room, Rosemary meets a young woman, Terry Gionoffrio, who is a recovering former drug addict, who lives with Minnie and Roman Castevet, the Woodhouses’ elderly next-door neighbors. The Woodhouses meet the Castevets as they are returning home to find Terry has fatally jumped from the Castevets’ seventh-floor apartment. The next day the Castevets invite Guy and Rosemary to dinner. Rosemary finds them meddlesome and is bothered when Minnie offers her Terry’s pendant as a good luck charm, claiming it contains “tannis root”. Unexpectedly, Guy, initially reluctant to socialize with the Castevets, becomes seemingly fascinated with Roman, visiting him repeatedly. Minnie also introduces her best friend Laura Louise to Rosemary.

Guy is cast in a prominent play after the lead actor inexplicably goes blind. With his career flourishing, Guy wants to start a family with Rosemary. On the night that they plan to conceive (October 4, 1965 – Pope Paul VI is visiting Yankee Stadium that day), Minnie brings over individual cups of chocolate mousse for their dessert. When Rosemary complains about a chalky “undertaste”, Guy angrily brands her as ungrateful. Rosemary consumes a bit more to mollify Guy, then discreetly discards the rest. The mousse that Rosemary consumed, was actually poisoned with drugs, causing her to become very tired. Guy escorts Rosemary to bed. Rosemary then starts to have a very relaxing dream. While she is presumably unconscious, Guy, Minnie, Roman, Laura Louise and other members of a demonic coven, while nude, perform a ritual in Rosemary’s bedroom. Because Rosemary didn’t consume the entire mousse, she isn’t totally unconscious and wakes up for a slight moment during her dream, and can witness everything, including being raped by a demonic presence. Nevertheless, Rosemary still believes everything was a dream. The next morning, Guy claims the scratches covering her body were because he did not want to miss “baby night,” and that she simply does not remember them having sex, having passed out from exhaustion.

Rosemary becomes pregnant, with the baby due on June 28. The elated Castevets insist that Rosemary go to their close friend, Dr. Abraham Sapirstein, a prominent obstetrician, rather than her own physician, Dr. Hill. Rosemary goes to Vidal Sassoon, and has her hair cut very short into a Bob, which Rosemary insists is trendy, but Guy doesn’t find it attractive at all. During her first few months, Rosemary suffers constant abdominal pain and loses weight. She also for no apparent reason, prefers and has cravings to eat raw meat. By Christmas, her gaunt appearance alarms her friends as well as Hutch, who has been researching the Bramford’s history. When Hutch comes over for a visit at Rosemary and Guy’s residence, Hutch also meets Roman, and is suspicious of him. Before Hutch can share his findings with Rosemary, he falls into a mysterious coma. Rosemary, unable to withstand the pain, insists on seeing Dr. Hill, while Guy argues against it, believing that Sapirstein will be offended. As they argue, the pains suddenly stop and Rosemary feels the baby move for the first time.

Three months later, Hutch’s girlfriend, Grace Cardiff, calls Rosemary and says Hutch has died. Rosemary meets Grace at Hutch’s funeral, and explains that right before he died, he briefly regained consciousness and told Grace to give Rosemary a book about witchcraft titled, All of Them Witches, along with the cryptic message: “The name is an anagram.” Grace gives Rosemary the book, who reads it cover to cover. Using Scrabble tiles, Rosemary works out that Roman Castevet is an anagram for Steven Marcato, the son of a former Bramford resident and a reputed Satanist. She suspects that the Castevets and Sapirstein belong to a coven and want her baby. Guy discounts this and later throws the book away, making Rosemary suspicious.

Within a couple days of her baby being due, Rosemary decides to unofficially secretly separate from Guy, and runs away from the house, packing a few of her belongings and going to Dr. Sapirstein’s office for him to deliver her child. Rosemary’s suspicion that Dr. Sapirstein is a coven member revives when the nurse receptionist at his office mentions that his cologne smells like “tannis root”. Terrified, as a last resort, she contacts Dr. Hill, and Rosemary tells Dr. Hill, she believes someone has put a curse on her and her baby, and that Guy is in a satanic coven, and she wants Dr. Hill to deliver her baby. Dr. Hill is unable to deliver Rosemary’s child due to his busy schedule, but says he will call a ride to take her to the hospital. However Dr. Hill tricks Rosemary and has lied to her, and deduces she is having a mental episode and is hysterical and calls her Husband and Dr. Sapirstein. Guy and Dr. Sapirstein, escort Rosemary back home and the pair threaten to commit her to a psychiatric hospital if she does not comply.

Once they are back at the Bramford, Rosemary tries to run away from Guy and Dr. Sapirstein, and locks herself into the apartment. The coven members somehow infiltrate it, and Sapirstein sedates Rosemary, who goes into labor and gives birth. Dr. Sapirstein then delivers Rosemary’s son. When Rosemary awakens, Guy informs her the baby was a boy and he’s doing fine. However, Dr. Sapirstein informs Rosemary that the baby has died, as he was stillborn. While she is recovering from giving birth, the coven members keep Rosemary captive in the house, giving her food, and sleeping pills. Rosemary notices that Laura Louise is keeping her pumped breast milk, which Rosemary finds odd. Rosemary stops taking her prescribed pills, becoming less groggy. When Rosemary hears an infant crying, Guy claims tenants with a newborn have moved in upstairs, but Rosemary believes Guy is lying.

Believing her baby is alive, Rosemary secretly gets out of bed, and armed with a knife for protection, she discovers a hidden door inside the linen closet that leads directly into the Castevets’ apartment, the same closet the previous tenant had blocked and is how the coven members accessed the Woodhouses’ apartment. Rosemary sees that Guy, the Castevets, Sapirstein, Hayato, who is a Japanese-American tabloid reporter who is also in the coven, and other coven members are gathered around a bassinet draped in black with an upside down cross hanging over it. Peering inside, Rosemary is horrified and demands to know what is wrong with her baby’s eyes. Roman proclaims that the child, Adrian, is the son of Satan and the supposed Antichrist, who inherited his father’s eyes. Roman urges Rosemary to mother her child, promising she does not have to join the coven, and that Adrian will spare her life in the future. Guy then finally admits he joined the coven, to reap the benefits of his acting career. Rosemary spits in Guy’s face. Upon hearing the infant’s cries, Rosemary is drawn to the cradle and begins bonding with her son Adrian. The film closes with Rosemary gently rocking Adrian’s cradle and singing him a lullaby.

Cast

Production

Development

In Rosemary’s Baby: A Retrospective, a featurette on the DVD release of the film, screenwriter/director Roman Polanski, Paramount Pictures executive Robert Evans, and production designer Richard Sylbert reminisce at length about the production. Evans recalled William Castle brought him the galley proofs of the book and asked him to purchase the film rights even before Random House published the book in April 1967. The studio head recognized the commercial potential of the project and agreed with the stipulation that Castle, who had a reputation for low-budget horror films, could produce but not direct the film adaptation. He makes a cameo appearance as the man at the phone booth waiting for Mia Farrow‘s character to finish her call.

François Truffaut claimed that Alfred Hitchcock was first offered the chance to direct the film but declined.[1] Evans admired Polanski’s European films and hoped he could convince him to make his American debut with Rosemary’s Baby.[5] He knew the director was a ski buff who was anxious to make a film with the sport as its basis, so he sent him the script for Downhill Racer along with the galleys for Rosemary’s Baby.[6] Polanski read the latter book non-stop through the night and called Evans the following morning to tell him he thought Rosemary’s Baby was the more interesting project, and would like the opportunity to write as well as direct it.[7] After negotiations, Paramount agreed to hire Polanski for the project, with a tentative budget of $1.9 million, $150,000 of which would go to Polanski.[7]

Polanski completed the 272-page screenplay for the film in approximately three weeks.[7] Polanski closely modeled it on the original 1967 novel by Ira Levin and incorporated large sections of the novel’s dialogue and details, with much of it being lifted directly from the source text.[8]

Casting

Mia Farrow‘s performance as Rosemary Woodhouse received widespread critical acclaim.

Casting for Rosemary’s Baby began in the summer of 1967 in Los Angeles.[9] Polanski originally envisioned Rosemary as a robust, full-figured, girl-next-door type, and wanted Tuesday Weld or his own fiancée Sharon Tate to play the role. Jane Fonda, Patty Duke and Goldie Hawn were also reportedly considered for the role.[9][10][11]

Since the book had not yet reached bestseller status, Evans was unsure the title alone would guarantee an audience for the film, and he believed that a bigger name was needed for the lead. Farrow, with a supporting role in Guns at Batasi (1964) and the yet-unreleased A Dandy in Aspic (1968) as her only feature film credits, had an unproven box office track record; however, she had gained wider notice with her role as Allison MacKenzie in the popular television series Peyton Place, and her unexpected marriage to noted singer Frank Sinatra.[12] Despite her waif-like appearance, Polanski agreed to cast her.[12] Her acceptance incensed Sinatra, who had demanded she forgo her career when they wed.[13]

Robert Redford was the first choice for the role of Guy Woodhouse, but he turned it down.[14] Jack Nicholson was considered briefly before Polanski suggested John Cassavetes, whom he had met in London.[14] In casting the film’s secondary actors, Polanski drew sketches of what he imagined the characters would look like, which were then used by Paramount casting directors to match with potential actors.[15] In the roles of Roman and Minnie Castevet, Polanski cast veteran stage/film actors Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon. Veteran actor Ralph Bellamy was cast as Dr. Sapirstein. (Many years earlier, Bellamy and Blackmer had appeared in the pre-Code 1934 film, This Man Is Mine.) [15]

When Rosemary calls Donald Baumgart, the actor who goes blind and is replaced by Guy, the voice heard on the phone is actor Tony Curtis. Farrow, who had not been told who would be reading Baumgart’s lines, recognized his voice but could not place it. The slight confusion she displays throughout the call was exactly what Polanski hoped to capture by not revealing Curtis’ identity in advance.[citation needed]

Filming

The Dakota served as a stand-in for exterior shots of the fictional Bramford Building

Principal photography for Rosemary’s Baby began on August 21, 1967, in New York City.[1] The Dakota‘s exteriors served as the location for the fictional Bramford. Levin modeled it on buildings like the Dakota.[16] In the novel, Hutch even urges Rosemary and Guy to move into “the Dakota” instead of the Bramford.[17]

When Farrow was reluctant to film a scene that depicted a dazed and preoccupied Rosemary wandering into the middle of Fifth Avenue into oncoming traffic, Polanski pointed to her pregnancy padding and reassured her, “no one’s going to hit a pregnant woman”. The scene was successfully shot with Farrow walking into real traffic and Polanski following, operating the hand-held camera since he was the only one willing to do it.[1][18]

By September 1967, the shoot had relocated to Paramount Studios in Hollywood, where interior sets of the Bramford apartments had been constructed on sound stages.[1] Some additional location shooting took place in Playa del Rey in October 1967.[1] Farrow recalled that the dream sequence in which her character is attending a dinner party on a yacht was filmed on a vessel near Santa Catalina Island.[19] Though Paramount had initially agreed to spend $1.9 million to make the film, the shoot was overextended due to Polanski’s meticulous attention to detail, which resulted in his completing up to fifty takes of single shots.[20] The shoot suffered significant scheduling problems as a result, and ultimately went $400,000 over budget.[21] In November 1967, it was reported that the shoot was over three weeks behind schedule.[1]

The shoot was further disrupted when, midway through filming, Farrow’s husband, Frank Sinatra, served her divorce papers via a corporate lawyer in front of the cast and crew.[20] In an effort to salvage her relationship, Farrow asked Evans to release her from her contract, but he persuaded her to remain with the project after showing her an hour-long rough cut and assuring her she would receive an Academy Award nomination for her performance.[22] Filming was completed on December 20, 1967, in Los Angeles.[1]

Music

Rosemary’s Baby (Music from the Original Motion Picture Score)
Soundtrack album by Christopher Komeda
Released1968
Recorded25 June 1968
StudioWestern Recorders, Hollywood, California
GenreFilm scorejazz
Length25:21
LabelDot Records
ProducerTom Mack

The lullaby played over the intro is the song “Sleep Safe and Warm“, composed by Krzysztof Komeda and sung by Farrow.[23] A tenant practicing “Für Elise” is also frequently used as background music throughout the film, the skill improving throughout the film to demonstrate the progression of time. The original film soundtrack was released in 1968 via Dot Records. Waxwork Records released the soundtrack from the original master tapes in 2014, including Krzysztof Komeda’s original work.[24]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1.“Lullaby from Rosemary’s Baby, Part 1“2:20
2.“The Coven”0:45
3.“Moment Musical”2:00
4.“Dream”3:45
5.“Christmas”2:05
6.“Expectancy”2:21
Total length:13:16
No.TitleLength
7.“Main Title (Vocal)“2:50
8.“Panic”2:02
9.“Rosemary’s Party”2:05
10.“Through The Closet”1:44
11.“What Have You Done To Its Eyes”1:27
12.“Happy News”1:57
Total length:12:05

Release

Box office

Billings, Montana theater advertisement (November 1968)

Rosemary’s Baby was given a wide theatrical release by Paramount Pictures, opening in the United States on June 12, 1968.[2] The film was a major box-office hit for the studio,[25] grossing a total of $33,397,080 worldwide against its $3.2 million budget.[2]

Critical response

Contemporary

In contemporary reviews, Renata Adler wrote in The New York Times that: “The movie—although it is pleasant—doesn’t seem to work on any of its dark or powerful terms. I think this is because it is almost too extremely plausible. The quality of the young people’s lives seems the quality of lives that one knows, even to the point of finding old people next door to avoid and lean on. One gets very annoyed that they don’t catch on sooner.”[26]

Stanley Eichelbaum of the San Francisco Examiner called the film “a delightful witches brew, a bit over-long for my taste, but nearly always absorbing, suspenseful and easier to swallow than Ira Levin’s book. Its suggestions of deviltry in a musty and still-respectable old apartment house on Manhattan’s Upper West Side are more gracefully and appealingly related than in the novel, which I found awfully silly, when it wasn’t downright noxious. The very idea of a contemporary case of witchcraft, in which an innocent young housewife is impregnated by the Devil, is to say the least unnerving, particularly when the pregnancy is marked by all degrees of mental and physical pain.”[27]

Variety said, “Several exhilarating milestones are achieved in Rosemary’s Baby, an excellent film version of Ira Levin’s diabolical chiller novel. Writer-director Roman Polanski has triumphed in his first US-made pic. The film holds attention without explicit violence or gore… Farrow’s performance is outstanding.”[28]

The Monthly Film Bulletin said that “After the miscalculations of Cul de Sac and Dance of the Vampires“, Polanski had “returned to the rich vein of Repulsion“.[29] The review noted that “Polanski shows an increasing ability to evoke menace and sheer terror in familiar routines (cooking and telephoning, particularly)”, and Polanski has shown “his transformation of a cleverly calculated thriller into a serious work of art”.[30]

Retrospective

Today, the film is widely regarded as a classic; it has an approval rating of 97% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 86 reviews, with an average rating of 8.8/10. The site’s critics’ consensus describes it as “A frightening tale of Satanism and pregnancy that is even more disturbing than it sounds thanks to convincing and committed performances by Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon.”[31] Metacritic reports a weighted average score of 96 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.[32]

Accolades

AwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
Academy AwardsBest Supporting ActressRuth GordonWon[33]
Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another MediumRoman PolanskiNominated
British Academy Film AwardsBest Actress in a Leading RoleMia FarrowNominated[34]
David di Donatello AwardsBest Foreign ActressWon[a][35]
Best Foreign DirectorRoman PolanskiWon
Directors Guild of America AwardsOutstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion PicturesNominated[36]
Edgar Allan Poe AwardsBest Motion PictureNominated[37]
Fotogramas de PlataBest Foreign Movie PerformerMia FarrowWon
French Syndicate of Cinema CriticsBest Foreign FilmRoman PolanskiWon
Golden Globe AwardsBest Actress in a Motion Picture – DramaMia FarrowNominated[38]
Best Supporting Actress – Motion PictureRuth GordonWon
Best ScreenplayRoman PolanskiNominated
Best Original ScoreKrzysztof KomedaNominated
Hugo AwardsBest Dramatic PresentationRoman Polanski (director/screenplay);
Ira Levin (original novel)		Nominated[39]
Kansas City Film Critics Circle AwardsBest Supporting ActorSidney BlackmerWon[40]
Best Supporting ActressRuth GordonWon
Laurel AwardsTop DramaNominated
Top Female Dramatic PerformanceMia FarrowNominated
Top Female Supporting PerformanceRuth GordonNominated
National Film Preservation BoardNational Film RegistryInducted[41]
Online Film & Television Association AwardsFilm Hall of Fame: ProductionsWon[42]
Photoplay AwardsGold MedalWon
Writers Guild of America AwardsBest Written American DramaRoman PolanskiNominated[43]

Home media

The Rosemary’s Baby DVD, released on October 3, 2000, by Paramount Home Entertainment, contains a 23-minute documentary film, Mia and Roman, directed by Shahrokh Hatami, which was shot during the making of the film. The title refers to Mia Farrow and Roman Polanski. The film features footage of Roman Polanski directing the film’s cast on set. Hatami was an Iranian photographer who befriended Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate.[44] Mia and Roman was screened originally as a promo film at Hollywood’s Lytton Center,[45] and later included as a featurette on the Rosemary’s Baby DVD. It is described as a “trippy on-set featurette”[46] and “an odd little bit of cheese.”[47]

On October 30, 2012, The Criterion Collection released the film for the first time on Blu-ray.[48] It was released for the first time on 4K Ultra HD for its 55th Anniversary on October 10, 2023.[49]

Legacy

The scene in which Rosemary is raped by Satan was ranked No. 23 on Bravo‘s The 100 Scariest Movie Moments.[50] In 2010, The Guardian ranked the film the second-greatest horror film of all time.[51] In 2014, it was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.[52]

The film inaugurated cinema’s growing fascination with demons and related themes in the coming decades,[53] and the novel’s author Ira Levin wondered in a 2003 afterword whether his idea for Rosemary’s Baby ultimately led to an increase in religious fundamentalism.[54]

Sequels and remakes

In the 1976 television film Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby, Patty Duke starred as Rosemary Woodhouse and Ruth Gordon reprised her role of Minnie Castevet. The film introduced an adult Andrew/Adrian attempting to earn his place as the Antichrist. It was disliked as a sequel by critics and viewers, and its reputation deteriorated over the years. The film is unrelated to the novel’s 1997 sequel, Son of Rosemary.[55]

After the success of Friday the 13th Part III series producer Frank Mancuso Jr. was assigned to work on another 3D film with one of the projects considered being a 3-D remake of Rosemary’s Baby before Mancuso ultimately deciding to produce The Man Who Wasn’t There.[56]

Another attempt to remake Rosemary’s Baby was briefly considered in 2008. The intended producers were Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller.[57] The remake fell through later that same year.[58]

In January 2014, NBC made a four-hour miniseries with Zoe Saldaña as Rosemary. The miniseries was filmed in Paris under the direction of Agnieszka Holland.[59]

In 2016, the film was unofficially remade in Turkey under the title Alamet-i-Kiyamet.[60]

The short Her Only Living Son from the 2017 horror anthology film XX serves as an unofficial sequel to the story.[61]

The film was followed by a prequel in 2024, Apartment 7A. The prequel takes place a year prior and leading up to the events of Rosemary’s Baby, and expands on Terry Gionoffrio and Mrs. Gardenia’s back-stories – minor characters in the original film.[62]

The film was satirized in 1969 in Mad magazine as “Rosemia’s Boo-boo”.[63]

The film inspired the English band Deep Purple to write the song “Why Didn’t Rosemary?” for their third album in 1969, after the band had watched the movie while touring the US in 1968. The song’s lyrics pose the question, “Why didn’t Rosemary ever take the pill?”[64]

The film was parodied in the 1996 Halloween episode of Roseanne, “Satan, Darling”.[65]

The film was turned into a parody musical in the ninth episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 9, titled Rosemarie’s Baby Shower. It featured horror movie icons like Blair, Pennywise, and M3GAN.[66]

The TV show What We Do in the Shadows parodies the film’s ending as part of an alternate series finale.[67]

See also

Notes

  1.  Tied with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl.

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