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"Three Coins in the Fountain" cast members throw their loose change in Rome's famed Trevi fountain while on-location for the movie in 1954. - 20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection
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.
On their way into town, the three women stop at the Trevi Fountain. Frances and Anita tell Maria that according to legend, if she throws a coin in the fountain and makes a wish to return to Rome, she will. Maria and Frances throw in their coins, while Anita, who is planning to return to the United States to marry, declines.
According to legend, throwing a coin into the Trevi Fountain ensures that travelers will return to Rome one day. Approximately €3,000 are thrown into the fountain each day. [25] In 2016, an estimated $1.5 million worth of coins were collected from the fountain. [26] These coins are used to fund a charity supermarket in Rome. [25]
A temporary replacement pool installed in front of Rome’s landmark Trevi Fountain to catch tourist coins during restoration ... it that if you throw one coin over your shoulder into the fountain ...
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.
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]
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