Rosemary's Baby (novel)

Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 best-selling horror novel by Ira Levin, his second published book. It sold over 4 million copies "making it the top bestselling horror novel of the 1960s." The commercial success of the novel helped launch a "horror boom", where horror fiction would achieve enormous commercial success.

Plot Summary
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse are a young married couple. He is an actor, waiting for his big break; She dreams of a bourgeois normality made of economic security, a nice house, so many children. After a long search they found an apartment in the Bramford - a historic building in the heart of Manhattan, surrounded by an aura of social prestige but also by sinister legends - and soon their lives seems to achieve a breakthrough: Guy gets a major part in a comedy and Rosemary is finally pregnant with their first child. But not everything is destined to go the right way. Rosemary's pregnancy is troubled by nightmares and premonitions, by unexplained abdominal pain and strange encounters, and especially by the invasion of two neighbors, who are too considerate not to be suspicious ...

Adaptations
In 1968, the novel was adapted into a movie starring Mia Farrow, with John Cassavetes as Guy. Ruth Gordon, who played Minnie Castevet, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Roman Polanski, who wrote and directed the film, was nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The movie was filmed partially on location at the Dakota, off Central Park West in New York City.

In 2014 it was announced the novel will be adapted again, this time as a television mini-series with Zoe Saldana as Rosemary.

Sequel
Levin published a sequel to the novel, titled Son of Rosemary in 1997. Levin dedicated it to Mia Farrow. A made-for-TV movie sequel to the Polanski film, Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby, was produced in 1976 but is unrelated to the book's sequel.