Genre: Romance
Release Date: 11/02/2004
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DDM2.0
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox

Adapted by playwright John Patrick from a novel by famed globetrotter/filmmaker John H. Secondari, Three Coins in the Fountain offers the splendors of Rome in Technicolor, CinemaScope and Stereophonic Sounds. For all its lovely picture-postcard images, the film is at base a reworking of 20th Century-Fox' favorite plotline: three pretty girls on the prowl for husbands. The three lovelies, who toss their coins in the Trevi fountain and wish for romance, include Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters and Maggie McNamara. Before the film is over, secretary McGuire has wooed her boss, Clifton Webb, Peters has won the heart of a co-worker Italian translator Rossano Brazzi (despite being fired, in the process, for having an office romance); and McNamara finds happiness with prince Louis Jourdan. Three Coins in the Fountain won two Academy Awards: "Best Color Cinematography" (Milton Krasner), and "Best Song" (written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, and sung in the pre-credits sequence by an uncredited Frank Sinatra). The film was remade in 1965 as The Pleasure Seekers, and also served as the basis for a never-sold TV pilot starring Yvonne Craig, Cynthia Pepper and Joanna Moore.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Clifton Webb - John Frederick Shadwell
Dorothy McGuire - Miss Francis
Jean Peters - Anita Hutchins
Louis Jourdan - Prince Dino Di Cessi
Maggie McNamara - Maria Williams
Rossano Brazzi - Georgio Bianchi
Howard St. John - Burgoyne
Cathleen Nesbitt - Principessa
Mario Siletti - Bartender
Alberto Morin - Waiter
Dino Bolognese - Headwaiter
Tony DeMario - Venice Waiter
Willard Waterman - Mr. Hoyt
Zachary Yaconelli - Ticket Agent
Celia Lovsky - Baroness
Renata Vanni - Anna
Maurice Brierre - Butler
Grazia Narciso - Louisa the Maid
Gino Corrado - Butler

Production:
Jean Negulesco - Director
Sol C. Siegel - Producer
Sammy Cahn Jule Styne Victor Young - Composer
William H. Reynolds - Editor
John Patrick - Screen Writer
Paul S. Fox Walter Scott - Set Designer
John De Cuir - Art Director
Lyle Wheeler - Art Director
Milton Krasner - Cinematographer
Dorothy Jeakins - Costume Designer
Gaston Glass - First Assistant Director
Ben Nye, Sr. - Makeup
Jule Styne - Songwriter
Sammy Cahn - Songwriter
John H. Secondari - Book Author

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    Troy Donahue / 1962

1954 Directors Guild of America

1954 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie