Three American girls look for romance in Rome while they
work as secretaries at the USDA. Clifton Webb is a famous novelist who has
hired a woman to type what he’d been writing all night. This secretary knows
him very well, and he loves that she’s unemotional and all business with him.
Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, and Maggie McNamara play the
three secretaries of whom two throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain, wishing to
stay another year. The three men who fall for these beauties are Clifton Webb, Rossano
Brazzi, and Louis Jourdan.
One of the scenes involves a runaway truck with no brakes.
Another scene is an evening at the opera. These show the amount of patience
these girls have for their men. They’ll put up with a lot to get the guy they
want.
The beginning of the film doesn’t start with a story, but
with a gorgeous overview of Rome’s fountains. Several times during the film,
the camera shows off the beauty of the setting. It was so well done that Milton
R. Krasner received the Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography. The music
playing during this breathtaking beginning also received an Oscar. Jule Styne
(music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) received the award for Best Music for an
Original Song, which was aptly named “Three Coins in the Fountain.”
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