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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 ...
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.
Erected late last week, the pool is adorned with unpainted plywood and sits behind a tall fence covered by transparent plastic, over which tourists throw coins in the hope of hitting the water.
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]
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 ...
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]
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.
On October 8, 1966, in a Welk musical tour of Italy, Smith sang "Three Coins in the Fountain". He left the show in 1969 to pursue a solo career of his own, which included stints on The Carol Burnett Show and as part of 1950s-style group The Diamonds .