 Directed by Roman Polanski (qv), whose pregnant wife actress  Sharon Tate (qv) was murdered in 1969 by Charles Manson (qv) and  his followers, who titled their death spree "Helter Skelter" after  the 1968 song by The Beatles (qv), one of whose members, John  Lennon, would one day live (and in 1980 be murdered) in the  Manhattan apartment building called The Dakota 