Rosemary's Baby (1968) filming locations
- Documented locations
- 18
- Year
- 1968
- Directed by
- Roman POLANSKI
- Cities
- New York, Los Angeles
The Dakota (Manhattan)
New York, United States
Designed by architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh and built between 1880 and 1884, the Dakota has ten storeys and sixty-five apartments, each one different. Designated a New York City landmark in 1969, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and named a National Historic Landmark in 1976, it has been home to Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Boris Karloff and Leonard Bernstein. John Lennon was shot under its front entrance canopy on 8 December 1980; his memorial, Strawberry Fields, faces it across Central Park.
The scene : 2 min — Renamed the Bramford, this Gothic building is where newlyweds Rosemary and Guy come to view a vacant apartment before moving in. The film shows its facades and courtyard, from the low-angle shot that closes the opening credits to the final shot. It is also on its sidewalk that the neighbor who took her own life lies, and in front of its entrance that the doorman whistles for a taxi for the Castevets' departure.
New York, United States
Forty-eight-storey skyscraper at Rockefeller Center, designed by Wallace Harrison and inaugurated in 1959 under the name Time & Life Building. The undulating paving of its plaza takes up the pattern of the sidewalks of Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro.
The scene : 1 hr 10 min — Hutch arranged to meet Rosemary in front of the Time & Life Building to reveal something urgent to her. She waits near the southeast corner, on the plaza's rippled paving, checking the time on the clock visible at the end of 50th Street, then goes into the lobby to call him from a phone booth: he will never come.
New York, United States
The scene : 1 hr 13 min — Distressed to learn that Hutch has fallen gravely ill, Rosemary stops in front of the jeweler's first display window to gaze at a nativity scene; Minnie Castevet immediately appears at her side and walks her back home.
New York, United States
The scene : 1 hr 36 min — Convinced that Guy is in league with the neighbors, Rosemary staggers, haggard, into the midst of traffic and crosses Fifth Avenue heading northwest; the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church rises on the other side of the street.
New York, United States
The scene : 1 hr 42 min — De la cabine téléphonique installée à ce coin de rue, Rosemary appelle, affolée, le Dr Hill, le médecin qu'on l'avait poussée à quitter, et obtient un rendez-vous sur-le-champ.
650 Park Avenue (Manhattan)
New York, United States
Immeuble d'habitation de vingt et un étages et quatre-vingt-dix-neuf logements, construit en 1963 sur Park Avenue, entre la 66e et la 67e Rue.
The scene : 1 hr 46 min — Rosemary s'y fait conduire en taxi pour tout confier au Dr Hill ; mais la secte retrouve sa trace et vient l'y chercher pour la ramener de force à l'appartement.
Paramount Studios
Los Angeles, United States
Paramount Pictures film studio, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood.
The scene : All the interiors of the Bramford apartments were built on studio sets in Hollywood; in New York, the crew filmed only the facades and the courtyard of the Dakota.
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : A few additional exterior shots were filmed in this Los Angeles neighborhood, though the sources do not specify which ones.
New York, United States
The scene : The latlong.net survey lists this Sixième Avenue address among the film's shooting locations, without saying which scene was filmed there.
New York, United States
Art Deco performance hall of the Rockefeller Center, inaugurated in 1932, one of the largest in the world. Designed by architect Edward Durell Stone, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and holds the statuses of New York City Landmark and National Historic Landmark. It is also among the contributing properties of a historic district.
The scene : IMDb lists the famous performance hall among the New York filming locations of the film, without specifying the scene.
41 West 47th Street (Manhattan)
New York, United States
The Gotham Book Mart bookshop, founded in 1920 by Frances Steloff, moved to this address in 1946, the year Steloff bought the building. A landmark of New York's literary life, it hosted meetings of the Finnegans Wake Society and the James Joyce Society, poetry readings and exhibitions, and in 2000 New York Magazine named it the city's best independent bookshop. The building was sold in 2003, and the shop reopened in 2004 at 16 East 46th Street before closing in 2007. In 2019, a jewellery store occupied the premises.
The scene : Rosemary comes here to buy more books on witchcraft, at what was then the Gotham Book Mart bookshop.
811 Fifth Avenue (Manhattan)
New York, United States
Thirteen-storey building on Fifth Avenue, at the corner of 62nd Street.
The scene : Ayant compris la trahison de Guy, Rosemary boucle une valise et fuit l'appartement pour se réfugier au cabinet du Dr Sapirstein. Elle y découvre que le médecin est lui aussi du complot, ressort aussitôt et part vers le sud-ouest à la recherche d'une cabine téléphonique.
New York, United States
The scene : IMDb places here, on the west side of the intersection, the shot of the taxi carrying Rosemary to Dr Hill.
New York, United States
The scene : Hutch and Rosemary walk down 60th Street toward the southeast to this intersection, with an elevated ramp in the background; Hutch questions her about the death that occurred in his building.
New York, United States
The scene : After the viewing, Rosemary and Guy walk away from the Dakota along 72nd Street toward Broadway, and on the way she persuades him to take the apartment. They pass a restaurant, the Californian, whose site is today occupied by a Gray's Papaya. Scouting NY believes so, without being certain, as the shot moves past too quickly.
New York, United States
The scene : This stretch of Park Avenue, between 53rd and 54th Street, is among the New York exterior locations used in the film, though the source does not specify the scene.
New York, United States
The scene : C'est du toit de cet immeuble, juste en face du Dakota de l'autre côté de la 72e Rue, qu'a été filmé le plan d'ouverture : un panoramique sur la ville qui plonge vers les toits gothiques du Dakota et finit à la verticale sur Rosemary et Guy, venus visiter l'appartement.
New York, United States
Fondé en 1850 par le pasteur luthérien Frederick W. Geissenhainer et constitué en société en 1852, ce cimetière de Middle Village s'étend sur 91 hectares. Longtemps appelé Lutheran Cemetery, il a pris en 1990 le nom de Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery ; quelque 540 000 personnes y ont été inhumées depuis sa fondation.
The scene : Dernier adieu au vieil ami du couple : c'est dans ce cimetière du Queens que Rosemary et Guy se rendent aux obsèques de Hutch.
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