<Li> Kathryn Givney as Mrs. Burgoyne </Li> <Li> Cathleen Nesbitt as Principessa </Li> <P> Upon its theatrical release, the film received generally positive reviews, particularly for its color and CinemaScope wide - screen cinematography of Italian filming locations . In his review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther wrote, "Three Coins in the Fountain is quite clearly a film in which the locale comes first . However, the nonsense of its fable tumbles nicely within the picture frame ." Crowther underscored the film's visual appeal to the audiences of his time . </P> <P> A nice way to take the movie audience on a sightseeing tour of Rome, with a flying side trip to Venice, through the courtesy of CinemaScope, has been devised in "Three Coins in the Fountain," a handsomely colored romance that Twentieth Century - Fox delivered to the Roxy yesterday . The trick is to underpin the picture with flimsy and harmless accounts of the plainly romantic adventures of three American girls in Rome and then chase them with the camera around the Eternal City as they pursue their destinies . </P>

Where was three coins in the fountain filmed