ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968) 4967

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Original British Set of 8 Front of House Cards (8×10) for the Roman Polanski film, ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968) starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Ralph Bellamy, and Sidney Blackmer. The movie was produced by gimmick-meister William Castle, but there was no gimmick here other than the improbably unlikely one that His Honor, Satan, the Devil, the Evil One, the guy on the deviled ham can, had fathered a child with Rosemary Woodhouse in a New York apartment building. If you can believe that, you can believe anything, but that didn’t stop millions of people from seeing this very popular horror movie based on Ira Levin’s novel. John Cassavetes is the husband and a great supporting cast form the coven. What could have been a B-film was dressed up with the stylish direction of Roman Polanski. And a great advertising tag line: Pray for Rosemary’s Baby. It all seems rather tame today, but it was scary back then. These front of house cards serve a similar purpose to lobby cards in the U.S.A. They are scarcer however. This set is used certainly, but the cards have no missing paper, some very minor tears on some cards, and minor rumpling. Unusual and scarce. Fine to Fine Plus.

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