Movie Quote of the Day (“Rosemary’s Baby”)

“We're your friends, Rosemary. There's nothing to be scared about. Honest and truly there isn't!” – Neighbor Mrs. Gilmore (played by Hope Summers) to an understandably nervous Rosemary Woodhouse (played by Mia Farrow), in Rosemary’s Baby, adapted from the novel by Ira Levin, written and directed by Roman Polanski
(The frightening supernatural thriller premiered on this date in 1968, and promptly set a standard for Satanic thrillers to follow such as The Exorcist and The Devil’s Advocate with its location shooting in New York City – something that differed from the usual horror movie fare, set in some Poe-like remote and dingy castle. The movie remains a landmark in the sometimes accomplished, just as often troubled life of Polanski, subject of a new HBO documentary. To me, it also functions as a sardonic commentary on the lengths to which an actor—in this case, Rosemary’s underemployed hubby Guy, played by John Cassavetes—would go for a good role!)