Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film) also recorded the song with its original English lyrics, and a German-language version, "Sag, weißt du denn, was Liebe ist". Here is a sample of the song's lyrics: In the film, charged romantic moments occur on a high grassy, windswept hill in Hong Kong. In the bittersweet final scene on the hilltop, the song (heard on the sound track) recalls the earlier encounters: The theme song won the Academy Award for Best Song, and the recording by The Four Aces went to #1 on the charts for three weeks in 1955, shortly before rock and roll became a dominant force
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film) garlic before her love scenes, which she may have done to discourage him. Once, Holden tried to make peace, offering Jones a bouquet of white roses, which she tossed back in his face. The film was completed on time, within the planned three months schedule. Upon its initial release it made US$4 million in the United States of America. "Variety" characterized it as "beautiful, absorbing." The music was initially commissioned from Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster as background music. It was extensively developed and woven into the film's orchestral score by Alfred Newman and his choral director Ken Darby.