Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Original film poster
Directed byHenry King
Screenplay byJohn Patrick
Based onA Many-Splendoured Thing
1952 book
by Han Suyin
Produced byBuddy Adler
StarringJennifer Jones
William Holden
CinematographyLeon Shamroy
Edited byWilliam H. Reynolds
Music byAlfred Newman
Sammy Fain title song
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • August 18, 1955 (1955-08-18)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.78 million[1]
Box office$4 million (US and Canada rentals)[2]

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 Deluxe color American drama-romance film in CinemaScope. Set in 1949–50 in Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter Mark Elliot (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from China, Han Suyin (played by Jennifer Jones), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society.

The film was adapted by John Patrick from the 1952 autobiographical novel A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin. The film was directed by Henry King.

The film later inspired a television soap opera in 1967, though without the hyphen in the show's title.

  1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p. 249
  2. ^ Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M170.