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THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN MOVIE

The idea is that if you throw a coin in the fountain, and wish to return to Rome, one day you will. It became a big hit that year for both Sinatra and the Four Aces.

Title Theme Tune: Written by Jule Styne (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics), and performed by an uncredited Frank Sinatra.

Scenery Porn: The film certainly gets a lot of mileage out of Rome and the Italian countryside.

Oblivious to Love: Shadwell has no idea that Frances is desperately in love with him, not even when he proposes a marriage of convenience to keep her in Rome.

The whole idea is to wish to return to Rome, and Anita, since she's soon going home for good, declines to throw a coin.

Non-Indicative Name: Only two coins are thrown into the fountain.

Naïve Newcomer: Maria, the new arrival to Italy and the USDA, serves as an exposition sink, with Anita explaining the setting and introducing characters to her and to the audience.

She has an attack of conscience and admits this, and Dino dumps her.

Gold Digger: Maria is portrayed sympathetically but this is what she is, setting her sights on Dino and pursuing him aggressively in order to land him as a husband.

Frances, who has found out his secret, meets him at the restaurant and orders six double scotches herself.

Drowning My Sorrows: After finding out that he has terminal brain cancer, Shadwell goes to a restaurant and orders six double scotches (they won't let him order a bottle).

The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: Shadwell goes to a doctor because he's having headaches he leaves talking about a "death sentence" and making plans for his own funeral.

At the Opera Tonight: Part of Maria's campaign to land Dino as a husband involves her pretending to like opera.

When they need to stop, several family members jump out and push against the car until it stops.

The Alleged Car: Giorgio's family's car lacks a horn and also lacks brakes.

THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN MOVIE

Remade as The Pleasure Seekers (1964), also directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Ann-Margret, which changes the setting to Madrid and again as the Made-for-TV Movie Coins in the Fountain (1990), starring Loni Anderson. Fred Albert, Three Coins in the Fountain, 1968, color lithograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Atelier Mourlot Ltd., 1968.97.31. It won Academy Awards for Best Original Song (see Title Theme Tune below) and Best Cinematography. This film was made during the " Hollywood on the Tiber " era when Rome became popular as a shooting location. She seems most focused on finding a husband, and sets her cap for wealty Prince Dino di Cessi. Finally there is the new arrival, Maria (Maggie McNamara), Anita's replacement at the USDA. She has a mutual and mutually unacknowledged attraction with one of the interpreters at the agency, Giorgio.

Anita is planning to soon return to the United States. Anita ( Jean Peters) is a secretary for the "United States Distribution Agency", which apparently is some sort of American press service. Frances (Dorothy McGuire), the oldest, has lived in Rome for 15 years as the personal secretary/ Girl Friday to famous author John Frederick Shadwell. It centers around three American secretaries working in Rome. Three Coins in the Fountain is a 1954 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jean Negulesco.