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Son of Rosemaryis a 1997 horrornovelby Ira Levin, and is the sequel to Rosemary's Baby.
Plot[edit]
The novel begins in November 1999 (a future year at the time of writing) with Rosemary Woodhouse waking up in a long term care facility after the last member of the coven from the first novel is killed in a car accident. She learns that she has been in a coma since 1973, the result of a spell cast on her by the coven when they discovered that she planned to remove her son Andy from their influence. Rosemary immediately becomes a national sensation after waking up from such a long coma. In her absence, Andy was raised by Minnie and Roman Castevet, the leaders of the coven.
Andy is now 33, the same age as Jesus is said to have been when he died—he also has twelve assistantsand a girlfriend called Judith S. Kharyatwho threatens to reveal his parentage and is spectacularly murdered with 7 silver knives and surrounded with 23 silver items to represent the 30 pieces of silver. He is the leader of a charitable foundation with a worldwide influence. Rosemary immediately suspects that Andy's foundation has a demonic purpose, but he reassures her that he has fought his evil side, and is trying to do good work. Supporters wear pins that say "I (heart) Andy"—in fact, this is the first thing Rosemary sees when she wakes—and after Rosemary's story becomes known, they begin wearing "I (heart) Rosemary" pins as well. Andy consorts with Republican Partymembers and members of the Religious Right. Throughout the book, various characters playfully mention the anagram "roast mules", often out of context or à propos of nothing.
The foundation has distributed candles worldwide with the intention that they be lit at midnight on New Year's Eve to help usher in the year 2000. Rosemary gradually comes to suspect that all is not right with the candles, but her concerns fall on deaf ears. In the climax of the book, the candles release a deadly virus which causes people to disintegrate into dust particles. Andy's real father returns for a visit, and takes Rosemary with him to Hell.
After being taken to Hell, Rosemary wakes up in bed with her husband Guy and finds that it is 1965 again. The events of the entire first book and nearly all of the sequel are revealed to have been a vivid dream of Rosemary's. Even the Bramford, the apartment building where Guy and Rosemary lived in the first book, was revealed to be a creation of Rosemary's mind after reading Bram Stoker's book, Dracula. Rosemary then receives a call from her friend Edward Hutchins (who in the first book was killed to prevent his revealing the coven's existence). He offers her and Guy a rent-free apartment in the Dakota Apartments(the model for the Bramford) for a year. Hutch then makes a comment about "roast mules", and about the candle lighting, causing Rosemary to sense danger. Guy questions why she would want to turn down a chance to live at the Dakota, but Rosemary takes Hutch's remarks seriously as a warning.
The anagram[edit]
The book contains the anagrampuzzle "roast mules." Levin never gives the answer, simply saying that it is a word that most five-year-old children would recognize. The solution is possibly "somersault," although it can also spell "soulmaster" and, perhaps most intriguingly given the book's ending, "almost sure."
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Genre
Horror
Distributed by
ABC
Directed by
Sam O'Steen
Produced by
Anthony Wilson
Written by
Ira Levin, Anthony Wilson
Starring
Stephen McHattie
Patty Duke
George Maharis
Broderick Crawford
Ruth Gordon
Ray Milland
Tina Louise
Music by
Charles Bernstein
Cinematography
John A. Alonzo
Editing by
Bob Wyman
Production company
Paramount Television
The Culzean Corporation
Country
US
Language
English
Original channel
ABC
Release date
October 29, 1976
Running time
100 min
Preceded by
Rosemary's Baby

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Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Babyis a 1976 TV movie, and a sequelto the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby. It has little connection to the novel by Ira Levin, on which the first film was based.


Contents [hide]
1Plot1.1The Book of Rosemary
1.2The Book of Adrian
1.3The Book of Andrew
2Cast
3External links

Plot[edit]
The Book of Rosemary[edit]
The first scene opens with the covenpreparing for a ritual, only to discover that Adrian (Rosemary's baby), who is now eight years old, is missing from his room. Knowing Rosemary (Patty Duke) must be responsible for this, the covenmembers use her personal possessions to enable the forces of evilto locate her. Rosemary and Adrian are hiding in a synagoguefor shelter. While hiding there, supernaturalevents begin to affect the rabbis. However, as they are seeking sanctuary in a house of God, the coven is unable to affect them.
The next morning, Guy (George Maharis), who is now a famous movie star, gets a call from Roman Castevet (Ray Milland). Roman informs Guy that both Rosemary and Adrian are missing and that Rosemary may attempt to contact him. Later that night, Rosemary and Adrian are sheltering in a bus stop. Rosemary makes a phone call to Guy, while Adrian plays with his toy car nearby. As soon as Guy answers the phone, Rosemary immediately issues instructions on how to send her money. Outside, some local children start teasingAdrian and bullyinghim by stealing his toy car. Suddenly, in a fit of rage, Adrian knocks the children unconsciousto the ground. After hearing all the noise, Rosemary hangs up the telephone and runs outside to find Adrian. Attempting to flee, the pair are accosted by Marjean (Tina Louise), a prostitutewho was witness to the incident. Marjean offers them to hide the pair in her trailer.
After a little while, Rosemary asks Marjean to go see what had happened with the children. After Marjean comes back, she lies and tells Rosemary that two boys were killed. Marjean is obviously a followerof Roman and Minnie (Ruth Gordon), but she offers to help Rosemary get a ride on a bus somewhere. After a bus finally arrives later that night, Rosemary gets trapped inside. The doors slam shut behind her before Adrian can get on. Rosemary then turns to the driver, only to discover that there is no driver, and that the bus is possessedand is driving itself. We then see Marjean holding Adrian in her arms, as he sees his mother for the last time, being taken away by the self-driving bus.
The Book of Adrian[edit]
Over twenty years later, an adult Adrian (Stephen McHattie) and his best friend, Peter (David Huffman), are detained by police for speeding. When Adrian arrives at his home, which is his "Aunt" Marjean's cheap casino, she confronts him about his reckless behavior. She tells him that she's always worried about him ever since his parents were "killed in an automobile accident".
Adrian then decides to go take a joy rideand instigates a fight with a gang of violent bikers. Peter finds Adrian, who tells him what happened and how he has been suffering from strange nightmaresand violent urges.
Later that night, Roman and Minnie arrive at the casino pretending to be Adrian's aunt and uncle. As they prepare for his birthday party, Minnie drugs Adrian into unconsciousness and dresses him up into a costume and devilmakeup. Peter, who notices something is wrong, becomes even more suspiciouswhen he sees the movie star Guy Woodhouse arriving. After Guy and Roman join the rest of the coven, they begin to chant, attempting to invoke Satan. Although it initially seems as though the ritual failed, Adrian is possessed and runs out on the casino's dance floor. Roman soon realizes that Satan is using Adrian to possess all the innocent people on the dance floor. Guy soon becomes frightened and runs away. When Peter sees Guy attempting to escape, he attempts to make him help save Adrian. Guy panics when Peter struggles with him, so he electrocutesPeter with a broken power cord.
The Book of Andrew[edit]
When Adrian regains consciousness, he is in a hospital and has amnesia. He is kept there against his will, as his fingerprintsmatch the set police found on the broken power cord that killed Peter. A nurse named Ellen (Donna Mills) tells him his name is "Adrian"; however, he insists his name is "Andrew", because he remembers his mother calling him "Andrew". Not knowing if Ellen will believe him or not, he is hesitant about telling her what he remembers about the cult. Ellen does believe him, and she helps him escape. When Guy is notified of Andrew's escape from the hospital, he fears Andrew may follow him and kill him in a fit of rage.
Whilst on the run, Andrew and Ellen stop at a motel, where she seduceshim. She then admits to him that she is a cult member, and she drugs and rapeshim. He apparently falls asleep having a terrible nightmare of Ellen as a type of harpythat tears at his chest. When Andrew later wakes up and goes outside looking for Ellen, a speeding car tries to run him down. Andrew manages to get out of the way; however, Ellen is hit. When the car crashes, Andrew discovers that Guy, who died in the collision, was the driver of the car. Confused and scared, Andrew runs away into the night.
The film finishes with Roman and Minnie sitting in the waiting room of a hospital to visit their pregnantgranddaughter. After the doctor informs them that the pregnancy should continue as normal, it is revealed that a pregnant Ellen has survived. During the end credits, Ellen is seen giving birth to Andrew's baby, Rosemary's son's baby.
Cast[edit]
Stephen McHattie: Adrian/Andrew
Patty Duke: Rosemary Woodhouse
Broderick Crawford: Sheriff Holtzman
Ruth Gordon: Minnie Castevet
Lloyd Haynes: Laykin
David Huffman: Peter Simon
Tina Louise: Marjean Dorn
George Maharis: Guy Woodhouse
Ray Milland: Roman Castevet
Donna Mills: Ellen
Philip Boyer: Adrian age 8
Brian Richards: Dr. Lister
Beverly Sanders: Interviewer
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Rosemary's Baby (miniseries)
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Rosemary's Baby

Directed by
Agnieszka Holland
Produced by
Alixandre Witlin
David Stern
Joshua D. Maurer
Robert Bernacchi
Zoe Saldana
Cisely Saldana
Mariel Saldana

Screenplay by
Scott Abbott
James Wong

Based on
Rosemary's Baby
 by Ira Levin
Starring
Zoe Saldana
Patrick J. Adams
Jason Isaacs
Carole Bouquet

Cinematography
Michel Amathieu
Editing by
Amy E. Duddleston
Brian Berdan

Studio
City Entertainment
KippSter Entertainment
Lionsgate Television

Distributed by
NBC
Release dates
May 11, 2014 (United States)

Running time
240 minutes
Country
France
Language
English
Rosemary's Baby is a 2014 television miniseries adaptation of Ira Levin's best-selling horror novel of the same name. Zoe Saldana stars in the four-hour, two-part (May 11 and May 15)[1] NBC miniseries that is directed by Agnieszka Holland.[2]


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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse leave New York City for Paris, hoping to put their painful past behind them. Unfortunate events oocur, and they are offered an apartment at the most prestigious address in the city. Skeptical of their good fortune, they take comfort among new friends and neighbors, the Castevets. This older affluent couple welcome the Woodhouses and become very involved in their lives. Rosemary becomes pregnant and Guy's career flourishes. His lively co-worker Julie spends quality time with Rosemary in the city, during which she worries over Rosemary's health, cautioning both that something isn't right. Other signs soon arise to cause Rosemary to be careful. Guy begins to spend a lot of time with Roman Castevet and less with Rosemary. Roman's wife Margaux assures her that herbs and holistic medicine will help with the pregnancy. The inquisitive Rosemary begins to investigate the building and its previous residents. She uncovers a dark past and realizes who Roman truly is, as well as her husband's possible pact regarding the baby and his career.
Cast[edit]
Zoe Saldana as Rosemary Woodhouse
Patrick J. Adams as Guy Woodhouse
Jason Isaacs as Roman Castevet
Carole Bouquet as Margaux Castevet
Christina Cole as Julie
Production[edit]
Saldana signed on to the project on January 8, 2014.[3] Jason Isaacs and Patrick J. Adams joined the cast on January 20.[4] Unlike the novel and movie, the miniseries is set and shot in Paris rather than New York City.[1][5]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Inzaurralde, Bastien (2014-04-28). "'Rosemary's Baby' Remake Shifts Horror to Paris". ABC News. Retrieved 2014-05-02.
2.Jump up ^ Andreeva, Nellie (2014-01-08). "Zoe Saldana To Topline NBC Miniseries ‘Rosemary’s Baby’". Deadline.com. Retrieved 2014-05-02.
3.Jump up ^ Goldberg, Lesley (2014-01-08). "Zoe Saldana to Star in NBC's 'Rosemary's Baby' Remake". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
4.Jump up ^ Goldberg, Lesley (2014-01-20). "Patrick J. Adams, Jason Isaacs Join NBC's 'Rosemary's Baby'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
5.Jump up ^ Andreeva, Nellie (2014-01-20). "Patrick J. Adams & Jason Isaacs To Star In NBC’s ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Miniseries". Deadline.com. Retrieved 2014-05-02.
External links[edit]
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Rosemary's Baby at the Internet Movie Database
Rosemary's Baby at TV.com


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Rosemary's Baby (novel)
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Rosemary's Baby
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Cover of 1967 first edition

Author
Ira Levin
Country
United States United States
Language
English
Genre
Horror novel
Publisher
Random House

Publication date
 March 12, 1967
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Audio book
Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 best-selling horror novel by Ira Levin, his second published book. It sold over 4 million copies "making it the top bestselling horror novel of the 1960s." [1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Critical reception
3 Adaptation
4 Sequel
5 Editions
6 References
7 External links

Plot summary[edit]
The book centers on Rosemary Woodhouse, a young woman who has just moved into the Bramford, an old Gothic Revival style New York City apartment building with her husband, Guy, a struggling actor. The pair is warned that the Bramford has a disturbing history involving witchcraft and murder, but they choose to overlook this. Rosemary has wanted children for some time, but Guy wants to wait until he is more established.
Rosemary and Guy are quickly welcomed to Bramford by neighbors Minnie and Roman Castevet, an eccentric elderly couple. Rosemary finds them meddlesome and absurd, but Guy begins paying them frequent visits.
After a theatrical rival suddenly goes blind, Guy is given an important part in a stage play. Immediately afterward, Guy unexpectedly agrees with Rosemary that it is time to conceive their first child.
Guy's performance in the stage play brings him favorable notice and he is subsequently cast in other, increasingly important roles; he begins to talk about a career in Hollywood.
After receiving a warning from a friend, who also becomes mysteriously ill, Rosemary discovers that her neighbors are the leaders of a Satanic coven, and she suspects they intend to steal her child and use it as a sacrifice to the Devil. Despite her growing conviction, she is unable to convince anyone else and soon becomes certain that there is no one actually on her side, least of all her own husband. Ultimately, Rosemary finds that she is wrong about the coven's reason for wanting the baby — the baby is the Antichrist and Guy is not actually the father.
Critical reception[edit]
Horror scholar Gary Crawford described Rosemary's Baby as "a genuine masterpiece".[2]
Adaptation[edit]
In 1968, the novel was adapted into a movie starring Mia Farrow, with John Cassavetes as Guy. Ruth Gordon, who played Minnie Castevet, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Roman Polanski, who wrote and directed the film, was nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The movie was filmed partially on location at the Dakota, off Central Park West in New York City.[3]
In 2014 it was announced the novel will be adapted again, this time as a television mini-series with Zoe Saldana as Rosemary.[4]
Sequel[edit]
Levin published a sequel to the novel, titled Son of Rosemary in 1997.[5] Levin dedicated it to Mia Farrow. A made-for-TV movie sequel to the Polanski film, Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby, was produced in 1976 but is unrelated to the book's sequel.
Editions[edit]
ISBN 1-56849-065-8 (library binding, 1991)
ISBN 1-56865-470-7 (hardcover, 1997)
ISBN 0-451-19400-4 (mass market paperback, 1997)
ISBN 0-451-21051-4 (paperback, 2003)
ISBN 3-926048-30-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-06-082815-8 (audiobook read by Mia Farrow, 2005)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Harry Edwin Eiss (editor), Images of the Child, page 38 (Bowling Green State University Press, 1994). ISBN 0-87972-653-9
2.Jump up ^ Gary Crawford, "Ira Levin" in Jack Sullivan (ed) (1986) The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural Viking Press, 1986, ISBN 0-670-80902-0 (p.264).
3.Jump up ^ Fran Capo, Myths and Mysteries of New York: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained, page 25 (Morris Book Publishing, 2011). ISBN 978-0-7627-6107-4
4.Jump up ^ Miniseries 'Rosemary's Baby' To Air May 11 and May 15 on NBC
5.Jump up ^ Christopher Bonanos, "No Rest For The Wicked", New York Magazine, page 135 (8 September 1997).
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Rosemary's Baby
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Directed by
Roman Polanski
Produced by
William Castle
Screenplay by
Roman Polanski
Based on
Rosemary's Baby
 by Ira Levin
Starring
Mia Farrow
John Cassavetes
Ruth Gordon
Sidney Blackmer
Maurice Evans
Ralph Bellamy
Angela Dorian
Music by
Krzysztof Komeda
Cinematography
William A. Fraker
Editing by
Sam O'Steen
 Bob Wyman
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release dates
June 12, 1968

Running time
136 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$3.2 million
Box office
$33,395,426[1]
Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling 1967 novel Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. The cast includes Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Ralph Bellamy, Maurice Evans, Sidney Blackmer and Charles Grodin (in his first film appearance). It was produced by William Castle.
Farrow plays a pregnant woman who fears that her husband may have made a pact with their eccentric neighbors, believing he may have promised them the child to be used as a human sacrifice in their occult rituals in exchange for success in his acting career.
The film was an enormous commercial success, earning over $33 million in the United States on a modest budget of $3.2 million. It was met with near universal acclaim from film critics and earned numerous nominations and awards. The American Film Institute ranked the film 9th in their 100 Years...100 Thrills list. The official tagline of the film is "Pray for Rosemary's Baby."


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2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Script
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
4 Reception
5 Legacy
6 Accolades
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1965, Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow), a bright but somewhat naive young housewife, and Guy (John Cassavetes), her husband and a struggling actor, are shown and move into the Bramford, an antiquated New York City apartment building, by the manager, Mr. Nicklas (Elisha Cook, Jr.). They discover a dresser concealing a simple closet containing nothing except a vacuum and a few other items, something they deduce must have been a result of the senility of Mrs. Gardenia, the former tenant. Their neighbors, Minnie (Ruth Gordon) and Roman Castevet (Sidney Blackmer), are an elderly and slightly eccentric couple who tend to be meddlesome but appear to be harmless.
Rosemary meets a young woman, Terry Gionoffrio (Angela Dorian), who has been taken in and helped by the Castevets after living on the street. As Rosemary admires a pendant necklace the Castevets gave to Terry, she notices its strange smell. Returning home one night, Guy and Rosemary find that Terry has thrown herself to her death from the window of the Castevets' seventh-floor apartment.
Minnie invites the Woodhouses to dinner and they reluctantly accept. Guy forms a bond with the Castevets. Minnie gives Terry's pendant to Rosemary, telling her it is a good luck charm and the odd smell is from a plant called "tannis root". Later, Guy lands a role in a play when the actor who was originally cast suddenly and inexplicably goes blind. Guy suggests that he and Rosemary have the child they had planned.
On the night they plan to conceive, Minnie brings them individual cups of chocolate mousse. Rosemary finds hers has a chalky undertaste and surreptitiously throws it away after a few mouthfuls. Rosemary passes out and experiences what she perceives to be a strange dream in which she is raped by a well-endowed demonic presence in front of Guy, the Castevets, and other Bramford tenants. When she wakes, she finds scratches on her body. Guy tells her that he had sex with her while she was unconscious because he did not want to pass up the moment for her to conceive.
Rosemary learns that she is pregnant and is due on June 28, 1966. She plans to receive obstetric care from Dr. Hill (Charles Grodin), who is recommended to her by her friend Elise (Emmaline Henry). However, the Castevets insist she see their good friend, Dr. Abraham Sapirstein (Ralph Bellamy), who says that Minnie will make Rosemary a daily drink which is healthier than the usual vitamin pills.
For the first three months of her pregnancy, Rosemary suffers severe abdominal pains, loses weight, becomes unusually pale, and craves raw meat and chicken liver. Dr. Sapirstein insists the pain will subside soon, and assures her she has nothing to worry about. When her old friend Hutch (Maurice Evans) sees Rosemary's gaunt appearance and hears that she is being fed the mysterious tannis root, he is disturbed enough to do some research. Before he can tell Rosemary his findings, he mysteriously falls into a coma. When Rosemary can't bear her abdominal pains another minute, they suddenly disappear.
Three months later, Hutch dies. He leaves Rosemary a book about witchcraft and it is delivered to her at his funeral along with the cryptic message: "The name is an anagram". Rosemary deduces that Roman Castevet is really Steven Marcato, the son of a former resident of the Bramford who was accused of being a Satanist. Rosemary suspects her neighbors and Dr. Sapirstein are part of a cult with sinister designs for her baby, and that Guy is cooperating with them in exchange for help in advancing his career.
Rosemary becomes increasingly disturbed and shares her fears and suspicions with Dr. Hill, who, assuming she is delusional, calls Dr. Sapirstein and Guy. They tell her that if she co-operates, neither she nor the baby will be harmed. The two men bring Rosemary home, where she briefly escapes them. Despite Rosemary locking them out, they enter the bedroom. Rosemary goes into labor and is sedated by Dr. Sapirstein. When she wakes, she is told the baby died.
In the hall closet, Rosemary discovers a secret door leading into the Castevet apartment and hears a baby's cries revealing that her child is alive. She then finds a congregation made up of the building's tenants, as well as Dr. Sapirstein, gathered around her newborn son. After seeing the disturbing appearance of her baby's demonic eyes, Rosemary is told that Guy is not the baby's father and that the baby, named Adrian, is actually the spawn of Satan. This horrifies Rosemary, who spits in Guy's face. Roman urges Rosemary to become a mother to her son and assures her that she does not have to join the cult if she doesn't want to. She adjusts her son's blankets and gently rocks his cradle with a small smile on her face.
Cast[edit]
Mia Farrow as Rosemary Woodhouse
John Cassavetes as Guy Woodhouse
Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet
Sidney Blackmer as Roman Castevet / Steven Marcato
Maurice Evans as Hutch
Ralph Bellamy as Dr. Abraham Sapirstein
Charles Grodin as Dr. Hill
Patsy Kelly as Laura-Louise
Angela Dorian as Terry Gionoffrio
Elisha Cook as Mr. Nicklas
Emmaline Henry as Elise Dunstan
Hanna Landy as Grace Cardiff
Philip Leeds as Dr. Shand
Hope Summers as Mrs. Gilmore
D'Urville Martin as Diego
Marianne Gordon as Rosemary's Girlfriend
Wendy Wagner as Rosemary's Girlfriend
Tony Curtis as Donald Baumgart (Voice)
Clay Tanner as the Devil
Production[edit]
Script[edit]
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 released the publication. 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 to finish her call.
Evans admired Polanski's European films and hoped he could convince him to make his American debut with Rosemary's Baby. 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. Polanski read the latter book non-stop through the night and called Evans the following morning to tell him he thought Rosemary was the more interesting project, and would like the opportunity to write as well as direct it.
The script was modeled very closely on the original novel and incorporated large sections of the novel's dialogue and details. Author Ira Levin claimed that during a scene in which Guy mentions wanting to buy a particular shirt advertised in The New Yorker, Polanski was unable to find the specific issue with the shirt advertised and phoned Levin for help. Levin, who had assumed while writing that any given issue of The New Yorker would contain an ad for men's shirts, admitted that he had made it up.[2]
Casting[edit]
Polanski envisioned Rosemary as a robust, full-figured, girl-next-door type, and he wanted Tuesday Weld or his own wife Sharon Tate for the role. Since the book had not reached bestseller status yet, Evans was unsure the title alone would guarantee an audience for the film, and he felt a bigger name was needed for the lead. Mia Farrow - with only a supporting role in Guns at Batasi (1964) and the then-unreleased A Dandy in Aspic (1968) as her only feature film credits - had an unproven box office track record, but her role as Allison MacKenzie in the popular television series Peyton Place and her unexpected marriage to Frank Sinatra had made her a household name.
Despite her waif-like appearance (which would ultimately prove beneficial, as Rosemary became more frail as her pregnancy progressed), Polanski agreed to cast her. Her acceptance incensed Sinatra, who had demanded she forgo her career when they wed, and he served her divorce papers via a corporate lawyer in front of the cast and crew midway through filming. 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. Farrow was not nominated for the award, but stayed with the film, which pleased Evans, Polanski and the entire cast.
Robert Redford was the first choice for the role of Guy Woodhouse, but he turned down the offer. Jack Nicholson was considered briefly before Polanski suggested John Cassavetes.
Sylbert was a good friend of Garson Kanin, who was married to Ruth Gordon, and he suggested her for the role of Minnie Castevet. He also suggested that the Dakota, an Upper West Side apartment building known for its show business tenants, be used for the Bramford. Its hallways were not as worn and dark as Polanski wanted, but when the building's owners would not allow interior filming, it became a moot point and was used for exterior shots only.
Polanski wanted to cast Hollywood old-timers as the coven members but did not know any by name. He drew sketches of how he envisioned each character, and they were used to fill the roles. In every instance, the actor cast strongly resembled Polanski's drawing. They included Ralph Bellamy, Patsy Kelly, Elisha Cook, Jr., Phil Leeds and Hope Summers.
When Rosemary calls Donald Baumgart, the actor who goes blind and is replaced by Guy, the voice heard is that of actor Tony Curtis. Farrow, who had not been told who would be reading Baumgart's lines, recognized the 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.
Filming[edit]
Sydney Guilaroff designed the wig worn by Mia Farrow in the film's early scenes.[citation needed] It was removed to reveal the Vidal Sassoon hairdo that made headlines when Farrow cut her trademark long hair during filming of Peyton Place.
One of Mia Farrow's more emotionally charged scenes occurs in the midst of a party, when several of Rosemary's female friends lock Guy out of the kitchen as they console her in private. The scene was shot in a single day.[citation needed] That morning, just before the first take was filmed, a private messenger served Farrow with formal divorce papers from Frank Sinatra. As she read the documents, Farrow fell to her knees on the kitchen floor and openly wept in front of the cast and crew.[citation needed] Roman Polanski insisted that the day be canceled and filming be postponed until the next day, when he would start consecutively filming as many scenes as possible that did not contain Rosemary.[citation needed] Farrow openly refused to accept this, insisting that nothing had changed. The day's filming concluded on time and without delay.[citation needed]
When Farrow was reluctant to film a scene that depicted a dazed and preoccupied Rosemary wandering into the middle of a Manhattan street 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.[3]
One scene that was shot but later deleted involved Farrow's character attending an Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks and encountering Joan Crawford and Van Johnson, who were playing themselves.[4]
Reception[edit]
In her review for The New York Times, Renata Adler said, "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."[5]
Variety stated, "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."[6] Ruth Gordon won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress which made the film the only horror movie to receive an Oscar for a lead or supporting role until "Carrie" in 1976 and[7] The Silence of the Lambs (1991).[8]
Today, the film is widely regarded as a classic; the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie a 98% rating (53 out of 54 reviews), with the site's consensus stating "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".[9]
Legacy[edit]
Following the film's premiere, a string of other films focusing on Satan worshippers and black magic appeared, including The Brotherhood of Satan, Mark of the Devil, Black Noon, and Blood on Satan's Claw.
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 scene in which Rosemary is raped by Satan was ranked #23 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
Thirty years after he wrote Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin wrote Son of Rosemary, a sequel which he dedicated to the film's star, Mia Farrow. Reaction to the book was mixed, but it made the best seller lists nationwide.[citation needed]
A remake of Rosemary's Baby was briefly considered in 2008. The intended producers were Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller.[10] The remake fell through later that same year.[11]
In January 2014, NBC announced an upcoming four-hour Rosemary's Baby miniseries with Zoe Saldana to portray Rosemary. The miniseries will be filmed in Paris under the direction of Agnieszka Holland.[12]
Accolades[edit]
Academy AwardsAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Ruth Gordon, winner)
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee)
Golden Globe AwardsGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture (Gordon, winner)
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama (Farrow, nominee)
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (nominee)
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (nominee)
Other awardsBAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Mia Farrow, nominee)
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (nominee)
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama (nominee)
David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress (Mia Farrow, winner)
David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Director (winner)
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay (nominee)
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award for Best Foreign Film (winner)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor (Sidney Blackmer, winner)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (Gordon, winner)
American Film Institute Lists
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies - Nominated
AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills - #9
AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains Minnie & Roman Castavet - Nominated Villains
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes: "This isn't a dream! This is really happening!"- Nominated
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - Nominated
See also[edit]
Satan's Slave
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Rosemary's Baby, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
2.Jump up ^ King, Stephen (1985). Danse Macabre, p. 296. Berkley Books, New York. ISBN 0-425-08842-1.
3.Jump up ^ "Rosemary's Baby" TCM Archives, movie presentation
4.Jump up ^ "Joan Crawford Was Cut From Rosemary's Baby!" Village Voice, January 9, 2012
5.Jump up ^ New York Times review
6.Jump up ^ Variety review
7.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000651/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
8.Jump up ^ "Rosemary's Baby: No 2 best horror film of all time". Retrieved 24 August 2013.
9.Jump up ^ "Rosemary's Baby (1968)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
10.Jump up ^ "Rosemary's Baby Remake Confirmed". cinemablend.com. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
11.Jump up ^ "Rosemary's Baby Remake Scrapped" IMDB.com, 22 December 2008
12.Jump up ^ Andreeva, Nellie (8 January 2014). "Zoe Saldana To Topline NBC Miniseries ‘Rosemary’s Baby’". Deadline.
External links[edit]
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Rosemary's Baby at the Internet Movie Database
Rosemary's Baby at the TCM Movie Database
Rosemary's Baby at AllMovie
Rosemary's Baby at Rotten Tomatoes
Dialogue Transcript at Script-o-rama.com
William Castle's involvement in the film
Collection of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby posters from around the world

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