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Three Coins in the Fountain

( Catalog Number 103285 )
(2.55:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Three Coins in the Fountain
1954 - 120 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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, McGuire has won over her icy employer Clifton Webb; Peters has "tamed" roving-eyed Rossano Brazzi; 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

Three Coins in the Fountain is good melodrama thanks in large part to the film's Oscar-winning music and cinematography on the one hand and its shallow script on the other. Watching it confers on the viewer the same benefit as a noonday nap: pleasant oblivion. Frank Sinatra sings the title song, a winner that made Rome's Trevi Fountain --- into which visitors toss a coin to assure their eventual return to Rome --- one of the world's most famous landmarks. The story focuses on three American secretaries who fall in love in a Panglossian world in which nothing goes wrong, even when one of the beaus has six months to live. Audiences of the 1950s lapped it up, enabling them to escape their bomb shelters, McCarthy, and memories of World War II. The actors, who cheerfully recite their innocuous lines, include Maggie McNamara, Jean Peters, and Dorothy McGuire as men-hunting secretaries and Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi, and Clifton Webb as their willing victims. The motion picture rises above itself with its beautiful images; the Eternal City never looked better. The dialogue contains nary a double-entendre, and none of the women reveals anything more than an ankle or a bare shoulder. But the film has its charm, and its Academy Award nomination as Best Picture proved that pleasant oblivion could vie with angst (as in 1954's On the Waterfront) for the hearts of the American filmgoing public. --- Mike Cummings

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Cast for Three Coins in the Fountain

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 Lovskv - Baroness
Renata Vanni - Anna
Maurice Brierre - Butler
Grazia Narciso - Louisa the Maid
Gino Corrado - Butler
Charles La Torre - Chauffeur
Vincent Padula - Dr. Martinelli
Norma Varden - Woman at Cocktail Party (uncredited)
Iphigenie Castiglioni
Kathryn Givney - Mrs. Burgoyne
Merry Anders - Girl

Crew for Three Coins in the Fountain

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

Awards for Three Coins in the Fountain

Best Color Cinematography (win) Milton Krasner 1954 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1954 Academy
Best Song (win) Jule Styne 1954 Academy
Best Song (win) Sammy Cahn 1954 Academy
Best Director (nom) Jean Negulesco 1954 Directors Guild of America
Best Actress (nom) Dorothy McGuire 1954 New York Film Critics Circle

Feature Details

Title: Three Coins in the Fountain
Feature Release Date: 1954
Genre: Drama
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 120 Minutes
Chapters: 10
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.55:1
Playback Format: CLV

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LD Release Date: 23 Apr 1992
Catalog Number: 103285
UPC: 086162103261
Manufacturer: 3M or IMATION
Publisher: CBS/FOX Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 103285
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire in...

Three Coins in the Fountain

( Catalog Number 103285 )
(2.55:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Three Coins in the Fountain
1954 - 120 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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, McGuire has won over her icy employer Clifton Webb; Peters has "tamed" roving-eyed Rossano Brazzi; 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

Three Coins in the Fountain is good melodrama thanks in large part to the film's Oscar-winning music and cinematography on the one hand and its shallow script on the other. Watching it confers on the viewer the same benefit as a noonday nap: pleasant oblivion. Frank Sinatra sings the title song, a winner that made Rome's Trevi Fountain --- into which visitors toss a coin to assure their eventual return to Rome --- one of the world's most famous landmarks. The story focuses on three American secretaries who fall in love in a Panglossian world in which nothing goes wrong, even when one of the beaus has six months to live. Audiences of the 1950s lapped it up, enabling them to escape their bomb shelters, McCarthy, and memories of World War II. The actors, who cheerfully recite their innocuous lines, include Maggie McNamara, Jean Peters, and Dorothy McGuire as men-hunting secretaries and Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi, and Clifton Webb as their willing victims. The motion picture rises above itself with its beautiful images; the Eternal City never looked better. The dialogue contains nary a double-entendre, and none of the women reveals anything more than an ankle or a bare shoulder. But the film has its charm, and its Academy Award nomination as Best Picture proved that pleasant oblivion could vie with angst (as in 1954's On the Waterfront) for the hearts of the American filmgoing public. --- Mike Cummings

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Cast for Three Coins in the Fountain

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 Lovskv - Baroness
Renata Vanni - Anna
Maurice Brierre - Butler
Grazia Narciso - Louisa the Maid
Gino Corrado - Butler
Charles La Torre - Chauffeur
Vincent Padula - Dr. Martinelli
Norma Varden - Woman at Cocktail Party (uncredited)
Iphigenie Castiglioni
Kathryn Givney - Mrs. Burgoyne
Merry Anders - Girl

Crew for Three Coins in the Fountain

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

Awards for Three Coins in the Fountain

Best Color Cinematography (win) Milton Krasner 1954 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1954 Academy
Best Song (win) Jule Styne 1954 Academy
Best Song (win) Sammy Cahn 1954 Academy
Best Director (nom) Jean Negulesco 1954 Directors Guild of America
Best Actress (nom) Dorothy McGuire 1954 New York Film Critics Circle

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