The three then go sightseeing, and Anne, whom Irving nicknames "Smitty" after she states that her last name is Smith, jumps on a motorscooter Joe has rented and takes a wild ride around the plaza. After Joe fills him in, Irving, using a miniature camera hidden inside a cigarette lighter, snaps pictures of Anne smoking her first cigarette. Anxious to please, Joe takes her to a nearby cafe, where she meets Irving, who, unaware of Joe's scheme, almost reveals Joe's identity. Anne, in turn, claims she is a runaway schoolgirl and admits that her only desire is to spend the day having fun. With her last bit of money, Anne buys a gelato and at the Trevi fountain, is joined by Joe, who pretends he has run into her. Mario is taken with the transformed Anne and invites her to a barge dance that night. Anne then enters a barbershop and insists that the barber, Mario Delani, cut her long hair into a stylish bob. Joe follows her, watching with amusement as she buys a pair of shoes from a street vendor. Now bathed and dressed, a grateful Anne borrows 1,000 lire, or $1.50, from Joe and leaves on foot. After drawing Anne a bath, Joe slips out and telephones his photographer friend, Irving Radovich, telling him only that he needs him for an important story. Back at Joe's apartment, Anne finally wakes up and introduces herself as Anya. Seeing his opportunity, the perpetually broke Joe gets Hennessy to agree to pay him $5,000 if he produces an exclusive, revealing interview with the princess, complete with photographs. When Hennessy shows him a newspaper report about the princess' sudden "illness," Joe stares at the accompanying photograph and realizes that the princess is the woman on his couch. At his newspaper office, Joe, unaware that the princess' activities for the day have been cancelled, lies to Hennessy, his editor, that he conducted the interview. The next day, Joe, who was scheduled to interview the princess that morning, wakes up late and rushes out, leaving behind the still sleeping Anne. When he returns, however, he finds her curled up in his bed and rolls her onto the couch. Frustrated, Joe goes out for coffee after instructing her to sleep on his couch. There, while trying to undress herself so that she can don Joe's pajamas, Anne admits that she has never been alone with a man and begins to recite poetry. Not knowing what else to do, Joe takes Anne to his tiny apartment. When Joe asks the increasingly groggy Anne for an address, she insists that she lives in the Colosseum. Joe is unaware of her identity and assumes she is drunk, but reluctantly drags her into a cab. Soon after, American reporter Joe Bradley spots her prostrate on some stairs and hears her mumbling in English. Anne jumps out when the truck reaches a lively part of town, but is already starting to yawn from the sedative. To calm her, Anne's doctor injects her with a sedative, but before the drug takes effect, Anne sneaks out of the palatial embassy and hides in the back of a truck. Later, as she is preparing for bed, Anne, feeling overwhelmed by her tedious, endless schedule, starts to scream uncontrollably at her efficient secretary, Countess Vereberg. While in Rome during a multi-city goodwill tour, Princess Anne, the youthful heir to a European crown, impresses the guests of an embassy ball with her charm and poise.
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