Three Coins In the Fountain (1954)

gal in 3 coins is supurb

Maggie McNamara plays a secretary in embassy in italy so well! yest is is forgotten today...a suicide in nyc inthe 60's or 70's. she couldnt get work as an actress because of a movie she made after 3 coins called THE MOON IS BLUE...with david niven and wm holden(i think) about i gal haveing 2 boyfriends/lovers...it was panned as outrageous can you believe it? ihave seen it and nothing os the sort is true. maggie did a fine job but the critics banned this film! and it followed her until her death. wht a loss!! check her out with louis jordan as her boyfriend in this wonderfulmovie!! i loved her..i see this movie often..great production values...makes you love rome as much a another wonderful rome film with susanne pleshette and wonderful troy donohue at his best (so overlooked, he was talented)..they end up marrying each other in real life after falling in love in gorgeous rome! see these two films and youll book the next flight to rome...ROME ADVENTURE AND THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN..FANTASTIC! May 7, 2008

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Received delivery on time and the dvd was in new condition as promised. Thanks January 18, 2008

Love at Trevi Fountain

Rome! Love! Trevi foundtain! A classic story of love! The classic chick flick - - see it! You'll enjoy it if you enjoy romance! December 15, 2007

A romantic melodrama, very much of its time

"Three Coins In The Fountain"
(Twentieth Century Fox, 1954)
This glossy Technicolor romance follows three American women living abroad in Rome as they search for love and encounter roadblocks along the way. The obstacles are mostly social: this Eisenhower-era potboiler is steeped in the restrictive, sexist mores of the time, where "good girls" aren't allowed to go on dates with the locals, or even go out unescorted through the streets of the city. All three women work as secretaries (the only job option available) and ultimately their entire lives are subsumed by the need to get married. (There's one great line, where the oldest of the three, a loveless spinster in her late '30s, is asked by her employer if she had ever thought of marrying him, and she replies that "every woman looks at every man she meets that way" -- my wife and I both did spit-takes when we heard that little nugget!) In addition to the retro gender views, there's also a quaint, old-fashioned condescension towards Italians (the "bad" Americans are looked down on for their prejudice towards Italians, but the movie itself has a fair amount of bias as well...)

Which isn't to say this movie isn't enjoyable. Indeed, it's fun both as a silly melodrama, and as a time capsule, looking back into a much more restrictive social culture. (Was this really only fifty years ago? Wow.) Wonderful cinematography, too -- some lovely portraits of mid-50s Italy and beautiful composition. If you love those old Douglas Sirk films, you'll like this, too. (Joe Sixpack, Slipcue film reviews) December 12, 2007

MNReview

If you like old time romance movies - this is great. Also super scenery of Rome. October 2, 2007

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