Rosemary's Baby (film) Rosemary's Baby (film) Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on "Rosemary's Baby" by Ira Levin. The cast features Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Angela Dorian, Clay Tanner, and, in his feature film debut, Charles Grodin. The film chronicles the story of a pregnant woman who suspects that an evil cult wants to take her baby for use in their rituals. "Rosemary's Baby" deals with themes related to paranoia, women's liberation, Christianity (Catholicism), and the occult. The film earned almost universal acclaim from film
The Detective (1968 film) to have his wife Mia Farrow cast as Norma MacIver, a role that was eventually taken by Jacqueline Bisset after Farrow was kept beyond the previously scheduled end of filming for "Rosemary's Baby". This was the last straw for Sinatra, who had the divorce papers publicly served on Farrow on her film's set. Their divorce became final in August 1968, putting an end to a short-lived romance of barely two years. Released on May 28, 1968 "The Detective" was a box office success, becoming the 20th highest earning film of the year with $6.5 million taken in box office rentals,