Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film)
1955 film by Henry King / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | |
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Directed by | Henry King |
Screenplay by | John Patrick |
Based on | A Many-Splendoured Thing 1952 book by Han Suyin |
Produced by | Buddy Adler |
Starring | Jennifer Jones William Holden |
Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
Edited by | William H. Reynolds |
Music by | Alfred Newman Sammy Fain title song |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.78 million[1] |
Box office | $4 million (US and Canada rentals)[2] |
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.