Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)

Games: Scrabble, Chess
Scrabble has certain prominence in Rosemary's Baby. We see the game on the living room´s table throughout the film. We also see the protagonist couple playing it once, and finally, we see Rosemary (Mia Farrow) using its pieces to discover the anagram she´s been warned about.
We also see a chess set in the dining room in several scenes, and another chess/checker board in the cupboard where Rosemary takes Scrabble from.

Guy (John Casavettes) and Rosemary (Mia Farrow) play Scrabble. When Hutch (Maurice
Evans) visits her next day, the board is on the table (image below).


A black and red chess/checkers board in the cupboard (left of Mia Farrow)




The Scrabble board is again on the table after Rosemary discovers the anagram (continuity error?).

The chess set is seen several times throughout the first half of the film.


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