Rosemary's Baby (film) Rosemary spits in his face. Minnie tells Rosemary that she should be honored to be the woman chosen to bear a child for Satan. Initially reluctant, Rosemary goes to the cradle and gently rocks him, with a small smile on her face. 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
Rosemary's Baby (film) 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. Patty Duke auditioned for the role of Rosemary Woodhouse but lost out to Mia Farrow. Despite her waif-like appearance (which would ultimately prove beneficial, as Rosemary became more frail as her pregnancy