Trivia for
Rosemary's Baby (1968)

• The Dakota Building on Manhattan's Upper West Side was renamed The Branford for the film.
  
  
• It was on the set of this film that Mia Farrow received divorce papers from then-husband Frank Sinatra.
  
  
• To keep the rituals and chants as realistic as possible, director Roman Polanski had Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and composer of "The Satanic Bibles," serve as an assistant in the ritual scenes. In return for his help, LaVey was allowed to play Satan in the "impregnating sequence."
  
  
• Oscar-nominated editor 'OSteen, Sam would later direct the sequel, Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976) (TV).
  
  
• Directed by Roman Polanski, whose pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, was in 1969 murdered by Charles Manson and his followers, who titled their death spree "Helter Skelter" after the 1968 song by The Beatles, whose leader, John Lennon, who would one day live (and in 1980 be murdered) in the Manhattan apartment building called The Dakota---where Rosemary's Baby had been filmed.
  
  
• Sharon Tate appears unbilled at the party Rosemary gives for her "young" friends.
  
  
• Mia Farrow does the vocals on the title-sequence lullaby.
  
  
• This was Polanski's very first adaptation, and it is very faithful to the novel. Pieces of dialogue, color schemes and clothes are taken verbatim.
  
  
• CAMEO(of Satan), Anton Szandor LaVey (head of the Church): the baby's father.
  
  
• CAMEO(William Castle): man near phone booth.
  
  
• CAMEO(Tony Curtis): voice on phone of the actor who is struck blind by a witch's curse so that Rosemary's husband can get an acting job.
  
  
• Mia Farrow and Christopher Komeda reached number 11 on the Billboard charts with "Lullaby of Rosemary's Baby" in August, 1968.
  
  
• Rosemary (Mia Farrow) says to Terry Ginoffrio (Angela Dorian): "I thought you were Victoria Vetri, the actress," to which Terry responds: "Everyone says that, but I don't see the resemblance." Victoria Vetri is Angela Dorian's real name.

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