Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 horror novel by Ira Levin.

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1967 - Horror - Novel - Ira Levin

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The story follows a young woman and her husband after moving into a New York City apartment next door to enthusiastic, oversolicitous neighbors. The couple want to have a baby; one night the woman has a vision that she is being raped by some demonic presence, and later she finds out that she is pregnant. The woman begins to lose weight instead of gaining it, and comes to suspect that her neighbors are part of a Satanic cult with designs on her as-yet-unborn child, and that her husband is working with them.

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New York City - Demon - Satanic - Cult

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Levin's novel was a best-seller, and was adapted as a 1968 feature film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Mia Farrow as the wife, John Cassavetes as the husband, and Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer as the neighbors. Gordon won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the film.

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1968 - Feature film - Roman Polanski - Mia Farrow - John Cassavetes - Ruth Gordon - Sidney Blackmer - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

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This film was Robert Evans' first big hit running Paramount Pictures. He was closely involved in the production, and numerous times had to deal with Mia Farrow's precarious relationship with then-husband Frank Sinatra. Farrow and Sinatra divorced soon after the film was completed.

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Robert Evans - Paramount Pictures - Frank Sinatra

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