Coins in the Fountain Coins in the Fountain Coins in the Fountain is a television film which was released on September 28, 1990. The film is based on the novel "Coins in the Fountain" by John H. Secondari, which was previously filmed in 1954 as "Three Coins in the Fountain". It was directed by Tony Wharmby and written by Lindsay Harrison. Filming took place in Rome and other parts of Italy during the summer of 1990. In the summer of 1990 in Los Angeles Leah (Loni Anderson) has just been named as the West Coast editor for a magazine owned by Nelson Publishing. Her
Rome Daily American the early 1970s. The intent of this ownership was to provide cover for CIA operatives and to influence the Italian electorate which was threatening to vote Communist at that time. During this period, the newspaper office was bombed and damaged. In the mid-1970s it was nominally owned by Chantal du Bois, the pen-name of Gabriella Lepore, housed in a central Rome (Via di Santa Maria in via 12) palazzo just off the Corso between the Parliament and the Trevi Fountain. "The Daily American" was produced and "put to bed" each early evening alongside the production of the small daily house