Three Coins In The Fountain
(1955)
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A lighthearted story of three young American girls who find happiness and love in Rome. |
One of the great successes of early CinemaScope. Twentieth Century-Fox's stand-by plot was the one involving three assorted girls in any location, and here they're in Rome, throwing money for wishes into the Fountain of Trevi. Their wishes are granted, of course, by Clifton Webb, Louis Jourdan and Rossano Brazzi — after all, what more could any girl of the 1950s want? Milton Krasner's cinematography won an Oscar, as did the (uncredited) Frank Sinatra title song, even though lyricist Sammy Cahn resorted to the meaningless coda “Make it mine, make it mine, make it mine” when he was unable to rhyme “fountain” with anything sensible. It sold a million! In its day, the movie's dialogue was considered quite risqué, and the clothes and performances were the very epitome of sophisticated chic. Sit next to the Kleenex.
Halliwell's Film Guide
An enormous box-office hit, the pattern of which was frequently repeated against various backgrounds; it was actually remade in Madrid as The Pleasure Seekers. In itself a thin entertainment, but the title song carried it.
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