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Rosemary’s Baby
Theatrical release poster by Philip Gips
Directed byRoman Polanski
Screenplay byRoman Polanski
Based onRosemary’s Baby
(1967 novel)
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 eponymous Rosemary, a newlywed living in Manhattan who becomes pregnant, and 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 ($270 million in 2025), 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 film launched a franchise, which includes the 1976 sequel film Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby, the 2014 miniseries Rosemary’s Baby, and the 2024 prequel film Apartment 7A.

Plot

Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse rent a recently vacated apartment in the Bramford, a large Gothic building in New York City, after the previous tenant, an elderly woman, fell into a coma and died. Guy and Rosemary ignore their friend Hutch’s warning about the Bramford’s dark past involving witchcraft and murder.

Rosemary meets a young woman, Terry Gionoffrio, a recovering drug addict whom Minnie and Roman Castevet, the Woodhouses’ elderly next-door neighbors, took in from the street. Rosemary admires a pendant necklace the Castevets gave to Terry but dislikes its content’s pungent odor. One night, Terry apparently jumps to her death from the Castevets’ seventh-floor apartment. Soon the Castevets befriend Guy and Rosemary. Guy grows increasingly fond of them, but Rosemary finds them annoying and meddlesome. Minnie gives Terry’s “tannis root” pendant to Rosemary as a ‘good luck charm’.

Guy lands an important role in a play after the original actor inexplicably goes blind. With his career on track, Guy wants to have a baby with Rosemary. On the night they plan to conceive, Minnie brings them individual cups of chocolate mousse. Guy chastises Rosemary for complaining hers has a chalky “under-taste”. She eats only a small portion before secretly discarding the rest. She passes out and experiences a dreamlike vision in which a demonic presence rapes her as Guy, the Castevets, and other Bramford tenants—all nude—watch. The next morning, Rosemary’s body is covered in scratches. Guy says they had sex while she was unconscious since he did not want to miss “baby night“.

When Rosemary becomes pregnant, the Castevets insist she go to their close friend Dr. Abraham Sapirstein, a prominent obstetrician, rather than her own physician, Dr. Hill. During her first trimester, Rosemary suffers severe abdominal pains and loses weight, though Dr. Sapirstein attributes it to temporary stiff pelvic joints. Her gaunt appearance alarms Hutch, who later researches the Bramford’s history and Roman Castevet after meeting him at Rosemary’s apartment. Later, Hutch phones Rosemary and arranges to meet with her the next morning to share his findings. When Hutch doesn’t show up the next day, she calls him from a phone booth, and a friend answers and tells Rosemary that Hutch fell into a mysterious coma the night before. At a Woodhouse party for their “old (young) friends”, Rosemary is unable to conceal her severe pain from her girlfriends, and hears their opinions. She starts pouring Minnie’s ‘health drink’ down the drain each day rather than drink it, and tells Guy she wants to see Dr. Hill for a ‘second opinion’. Guy gets angry, worried that Dr. Sapirstein will be offended. As they argue, the pains suddenly stop and Rosemary feels the baby move for the first time, much to Rosemary’s relief.

Three months later, Hutch’s friend, Grace Cardiff, calls Rosemary to inform her Hutch is dead. Before dying, he briefly regained consciousness and told Grace to give Rosemary a book on witchcraft along with the cryptic message: “The name is an anagram“. Rosemary studies the book and deduces that Roman Castevet is an anagram for Steven Marcato, the son of a former Bramford resident and a reputed Satanist. She suspects the Castevets belong to a Satanic coven and have sinister plans for her baby. She sees Dr. Sapirstein and shares her fears about the Castevets. He tells her they’ll be going away on a trip, as Roman hasn’t much longer to live, so she needn’t worry about them harming the baby. Guy meanwhile, discounts her suspicions and throws the witchcraft book away, making her fear that Guy may be conspiring with the Castevets.

Rosemary buys new witchcraft books, and learns that a coven needs an item that belongs to their intended victim in order to perform their harmful spells. Rosemary calls the blinded actor, and confirms that Guy visited him and took one of his neckties. Alarmed, she packs some clothes and cash and leaves the apartment. Intending to see Dr Sapirstein, a casual comment from his receptionist about his occasional tannis root odour makes Rosemary realise that Dr Sapirstein is part of the coven. She hurriedly leaves and goes to Dr. Hill instead. Assuming she is delusional, he calls Dr. Sapirstein, who arrives with Guy to take Rosemary home. They assure her that neither she nor the baby will be harmed. Rosemary locks herself in the apartment, but coven members infiltrate and restrain her. Dr. Sapirstein sedates a hysterical Rosemary, who goes into labor and gives birth. When she awakens, she is told the baby was stillborn. As Rosemary recovers, she hears an infant crying that Guy claims belongs to new tenants.

Believing her baby is alive, Rosemary examines a linen closet that shares a wall with the Castevets’ apartment and discovers a hidden door leading into the apartment. In the living room, the Castevets, Guy, Dr. Sapirstein and other coven members are gathered around a cradle as if celebrating. Peering inside, Rosemary is horrified to see that the child has eyes that recall the demonic figure she saw in her vision when she and Guy conceived. She demands to know what is wrong with her baby. Roman tells her the baby “has his father’s eyes,” that he is not Guy’s son but Satan’s son. He reveals that her experience the night the child was conceived was not a vision but reality, and that the child that resulted is destined to lead the Satanists in a revolt against all who oppose their beliefs. When Guy tries to calm Rosemary by claiming they will be generously rewarded and can conceive their own child, Rosemary spits in his face. Roman gently urges her to be a mother to the child, saying that the women in the coven are “too old” to do this. Rosemary appears stunned by all she has been told, but after hearing the infant’s cries, she tenderly begins to rock the cradle.

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 said 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 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 and 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
StudiosWestern Recorders, Hollywood, California
GenresFilm 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

Rosemary’s Baby was given a wide theatrical release by Paramount Pictures, opening in the United States on June 12, 1968.[2]

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.[25] Mia and Roman was screened originally as a promo film at Hollywood’s Lytton Center,[26] and later included as a featurette on the Rosemary’s Baby DVD. It is described as a “trippy on-set featurette”[27] and “an odd little bit of cheese.”[28]

On October 30, 2012, The Criterion Collection released the film for the first time on Blu-ray.[29] It was released for the first time on 4K Ultra HD for its 55th Anniversary on October 10, 2023.[30]

Reception

Box office

Billings, Montana theater advertisement (November 1968)

The film was a major box-office hit for Paramount Pictures,[31] 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.”[32]

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.”[33]

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.”[34]

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“.[35] 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”.[36]

Retrospective

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 88 critics’ reviews are positive. The website’s consensus reads: “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.”[37]

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 96 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.[38]

Accolades

InstitutionYearCategoryRecipient(s) and nominee(s)ResultRef.
Academy Awards1969Best Supporting ActressRuth GordonWon[39]
Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another MediumRoman PolanskiNominated
British Academy Film Awards1970Best Actress in a Leading RoleMia FarrowNominated[40]
David di Donatello Awards1969Best Foreign ActressWon[a][41]
Best Foreign DirectorRoman PolanskiWon
Directors Guild of America Awards1969Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion PicturesNominated[42]
Edgar Allan Poe Awards1969Best Motion PictureNominated[43]
Fotogramas de Plata1969Best Foreign Movie PerformerMia FarrowWon
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics1969Best Foreign FilmRoman PolanskiWon
Golden Globe Awards1969Best Actress in a Motion Picture – DramaMia FarrowNominated[44]
Best Supporting Actress – Motion PictureRuth GordonWon
Best ScreenplayRoman PolanskiNominated
Best Original ScoreKrzysztof KomedaNominated
Hugo Awards1969Best Dramatic PresentationRoman Polanski (director/screenplay);
Ira Levin (original novel)		Nominated[45]
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards1969Best Supporting ActorSidney BlackmerWon[46]
Best Supporting ActressRuth GordonWon
Laurel Awards1969Top DramaRosemary’s BabyNominated
Top Female Dramatic PerformanceMia FarrowNominated
Top Female Supporting PerformanceRuth GordonNominated
National Film Preservation Board2014National Film RegistryRosemary’s BabyInducted[47]
Online Film & Television Association Awards2020Film Hall of Fame: ProductionsWon[48]
Photoplay Awards1969Gold MedalWon
Writers Guild of America Awards1969Best Written American DramaRoman PolanskiNominated[49]

Subsequent media

Television sequel

Main article: Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby

In the 1976 television film Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby, Patty Duke starred as Rosemary, Stephen McHattie as the now-adult son (called ‘Adrian’), and Ray Milland as Roman. Ruth Gordon, the only actor to appear in both films, reprised her role of Minnie Castevet. The film introduced an adult Andrew/Adrian attempting to earn his place as the Antichrist. It was directed by Sam O’Steen, the editor of the original film.

The film is unrelated to the novel’s 1997 sequel, Son of Rosemary.[50]

Television remake

Main article: Rosemary’s Baby (miniseries)

After the success of Friday the 13th Part III, the producer of the film, 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. Mancuso ultimately decided to produce The Man Who Wasn’t There.[51] Another attempt to remake Rosemary’s Baby was considered in 2008. The intended producers were Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller.[52] The remake fell through later that same year.[53]

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.[54]

Prequel film

Main article: Apartment 7A

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 who were minor characters in the original film.[55]

Other media

In 2016, the film was unofficially remade in Turkey under the title Alamet-i-Kiyamet.[56] The short Her Only Living Son from the 2017 horror anthology film XX serves as an unofficial sequel to the story.[57]

In popular culture

The film was satirized in 1969 in Mad as “Rosemia’s Boo-boo”.[58]

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?”[59]

The film was parodied in the 1996 Halloween episode of Roseanne, “Satan, Darling”.[60]

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.[61]

The TV show What We Do in the Shadows parodies the film’s ending as part of an alternative series finale.[62]

The 8th episode of season 3 of the TV show Star Trek: Enterprise, titled “Twilight”, references Rosemary’s Baby as the intended movie night selection for the crew. It is so anticipated by the lead character Captain Jonathan Archer that he is handed a PADD containing the movie to watch whilst laid-up in sickbay overnight.

Legacy

The scene in which Rosemary is raped by Satan was ranked No. 23 on Bravo‘s The 100 Scariest Movie Moments.[63] In 2010, The Guardian ranked the film the second-greatest horror film of all time.[64] In 2014, it was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.[65]

The film inaugurated cinema’s growing fascination with demons and related themes in the coming decades,[66] 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.[67]

See also

Notes

  1.  Tied with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl.

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