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The melody was written by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. [1] It was written for the romance film, Three Coins in the Fountain and refers to the act of throwing a coin into the Trevi Fountain in Rome while making a wish. Each of the film's three stars (Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, and Jean Peters) performs this act.
The film follows three American women working in Rome who dream of finding romance in the Eternal City. [7] It was originally titled We Believe in Love. The film's main title song "Three Coins in the Fountain", sung by an uncredited Frank Sinatra, went on to become an enduring standard.
Coins in the Fountain is a 1952 novel by John Hermes Secondari, from which was adapted the 1954 Academy Award-winning film, Three Coins in the Fountain. [1] It was remade in 1964 as the Oscar-nominated film The Pleasure Seekers [ 1 ] and again in 1990 as Coins in the Fountain .
Some well-known fountains can collect thousands of dollars in coins each year. According to an NBC report from 2016, the Trevi Fountain accumulated about $1.5 million in coins that year. (The ...
Trevi Fountain, part of the inspiration for the novel Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Three Coins in the Fountain .
In 2022 Caritas collected 1.4 million euros ($1.52 million) from the fountain and it expects to have gathered even more in 2023. Rome is one of the world's most visited cities with 21 million ...
Coins are purportedly meant to be thrown while turning one's back to the fountain, using the right hand over the left shoulder. [33] This was the theme of 1954's Three Coins in the Fountain and the Academy Award-winning song by that name which introduced the picture. An estimated 3,000 euros are thrown into the fountain each day. [34]
The Four Aces recorded the song "Three Coins in the Fountain", written by Jule Styne for the film of the same name.The song hit the No. 1 bestselling record twice in 1954, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song the same year.