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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.
Steve Martin starts to sing "Three Coins in a Fountain" when attempting a sing-along in the 1987 film, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but nobody else wants to sing the song. In the 1956 Merrie Melodies cartoon " Napoleon Bunny-Part ” Bugs Bunny impersonating Empress Josephine inserts coins in a jukebox, selecting the fictitious disc "Three ...
The Pleasure Seekers is a 1964 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco from a screenplay by Edith Sommer, based on the 1952 novel Coins in the Fountain by John H. Secondari. The film stars Ann-Margret, Tony Franciosa, Carol Lynley, Gardner McKay, and Pamela Tiffin, with Gene Tierney (in her final film) and Brian Keith.
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 ...
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]
Two coins means you’ll fall in love with an attractive Italian, and three coins means you will marry that person. Other legends lean towards paying homage to the gods of water.
As visitors' coins splash into Rome's majestic Trevi Fountain carrying wishes for love, good health or a return to the Eternal City, they provide practical help to people the tourists will never meet.
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.