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Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Where Rosemary's Baby says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

The Gothic Manhattan building is the Dakota, but every room inside it was built in Hollywood

Scenes and places

The Bramford

Rosemary and Guy rent an apartment in the Bramford, a large Gothic building in New York, ignoring their friend Hutch's warning about its dark past. The move sets up everything that follows.

Set in The Bramford — The old Gothic apartment building in Manhattan where Rosemary and Guy rent an apartment.

A real 1880s Manhattan apartment house; the film only borrows its outside.

Filmed at The Dakota, 1 West 72nd Street (Upper West Side, New York, United States) — The Dakota's exteriors stand in for the fictional Bramford. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Apartment 7-E

A rental agent shows Rosemary and Guy the flat of an old woman who has just died. Rosemary falls for it and spots a closet hidden behind a piece of furniture.

Set in Apartment 7-E, the Bramford — The Woodhouses' new apartment, with the previous tenant's things still in it.

A New York apartment that exists only as a set built in Los Angeles.

Filmed at Paramount Studios sound stages, Hollywood (Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States) — The Bramford apartment interiors were built as sets on the Paramount lot in Hollywood, not in New York. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Next door: the Castevets

Rosemary meets Terry, a young woman the elderly Castevets took in, and admires the pendant they gave her. Soon the Castevets befriend the couple, and Rosemary finds them meddlesome while Guy warms to them.

Set in The Castevets' apartment, the Bramford — The elderly neighbours' flat beside the Woodhouses, where a young woman named Terry once stayed.

Wall-to-wall wallpaper and cluttered rooms, built on a sound stage.

Filmed at Paramount Studios sound stages, Hollywood (Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States) — The neighbouring flat is part of the same Paramount set; the source speaks only of the Bramford apartment interiors, so this is inferred. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Baby night

Minnie brings the couple chocolate mousse, and Rosemary notices a chalky taste. She passes out, has a vivid dream, and in the morning finds her body scratched while Guy explains it away.

Set in The Woodhouse apartment, and a dream yacht — The couple's flat on the night they plan to conceive, and a dream that carries Rosemary far from it.

The island coordinate is the island's centre, not the boat's position.

Filmed at Paramount Studios sound stages, Hollywood (Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States) — The apartment is the Paramount set. Rosemary's dream sequence is a separate shoot (next entry). Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Waters off Santa Catalina Island, California (California, Santa Catalina Island, United States) — The dream dinner on a yacht was filmed on a vessel near Santa Catalina Island, according to Mia Farrow's recollection. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The phone booth

Hutch fails to show up for their meeting, so Rosemary rings his apartment from a phone booth. Someone tells her he fell into a deep coma at St. Vincent's Hospital the night before.

Set in A Manhattan phone booth — A public phone booth in midtown Manhattan from which Rosemary phones about her friend Hutch.

A public phone booth in midtown Manhattan; the source gives no street.

Fifth Avenue

Rosemary wanders into the middle of Fifth Avenue in a daze, with cars coming. Polanski reassured Farrow that no one would hit a pregnant woman.

Set in Fifth Avenue, Manhattan — A dazed, pregnant Rosemary walks into the middle of Fifth Avenue.

The scene was shot among genuine New York traffic; the exact block is not given in the source.

Filmed at Playa del Rey, Los Angeles (Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, United States) — Additional location shooting, October 1967 (scene not named) Google Maps · Apple Maps

Filmed at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, West 55th Street (Midtown, New York, United States) — Scene not named Google Maps · Apple Maps

Filmed at 1271 Avenue of the Americas (Time-Life Building) (Midtown, New York, United States) — Scene not named Google Maps · Apple Maps

Characters

• Rosemary Woodhouse — A young wife who moves into a Manhattan apartment house with her actor husband and becomes pregnant.
• Guy Woodhouse — Her struggling actor husband, who grows close to the elderly neighbours.