Rosemary’s Baby
Date: 1968
Director: Roman Polanski
Production Company: William Castle Productions
Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Charles Grodin, Elisha Cook Jnr., Victoria Vetri
Location(s): New York, LA (studio)
Region(s): N. America
Storyline:
Devilish horror in which Rosemary loses her husband’s interest and begins to suspect her pregnancy is not all it should be. SJ
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- Capture 1
- 18 Nov 2013
After a pan across north Manhattan for the twin-towered Majestic building opposite, the camera settles on the Dakota building on the corner of west 72nd and Central Park West.
Here's one from street level. SJ
- Capture 2
- 18 Nov 2013
Cassavetes and Farrow meets the caretaker Cook at the south entrance of the Dakota apartments. The block was also seen in House of Strangers and Vanilla Sky.
But probably more famously this is where John Lennon was shot on 8/12/80.
- Capture 3
- 'Now' required
This interior will need the co-operation of an insider at the Dakota.
- Capture 4
- 18 Nov 2013
Cassavetes and Farrow discuss Vetri's "suicide" with Gordon and Blackmer ouside the south entrance of the Dakota.
Not quite the right angle. To be improved. SJ
- Capture 5
- 'Now' required
Farrow and Evans walk and talk with back to camera.
- Capture 6
- 23 Jan 2014
Farrow waiting in vain for Evans. Radio City, 1260 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave), on the corner of 50th Ave, in the background. Nice serpentine paving reproducing Rio's Copacabana Beach.
The second snowstorm of 2014 starts to cover the changed scene. (RL)
- Capture 7
- 23 Jan 2014
Reverse pov. The Time & Life building, or Time-Life Building, 1271 Avenue of the Americas. Looking west down 50th Avenue.
The front entrance has been remodelled. (RL)
- Capture 8
- 23 Jan 2014
A close-up with a nice address, 111 West 50th Street. The lobby murals are still there, and have been since 1959.
All part of the changes. (RL)
- Capture 9
- 'Now' required
Farrow at the cemetery to send off Evans. This could be in LA.
- Capture 10
- 20 Nov 2013
Seeing off Gordon and Blackmer much to Farrow's relief. Back outside the Dakota.
Note the guard booth still there. SJ
- Capture 11
- 16 Dec 2024
Farrow walks across Fifth Avenue with the 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church on the corner of west 55th Street. Looking north.
John and Gemma Wood at the intersection. (SJ)
- Capture 12
- 23 Jan 2014
Farrow leaves Bellamy's office on Fifth Avenue at 62nd Street.
A seasonal variation. (RL)
- Capture 13
- 16 Dec 2024
Just across 62nd Street on Fifth Avenue where Farrow calls Grodin for help. This was the first scene shot for the film. And the producer William Castle makes an appearance as a man smoking a cigar waiting for Farrow to finish.
John and Gemma Wood found some new building here. (SJ)
- Capture 14
- 16 Dec 2024
Farrow at Grodin's surgery. 650 Park Avenue.
John and Gemma Wood found some scaffolding, as is so often the case with RS. (SJ)