Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film) was killed and she runs to visit their favorite hilltop meeting place. The rights to the novel were bought by David Brown of 20th Century Fox for the producer Sol C. Siegel. However, when he left the company the project was given to Buddy Adler. Parts of the film were shot on location in Hong Kong by second-unit director Otto Lang, which was unusual for its time. Two weeks of location filming in Hong Kong had been completed before the final screenplay had been finished by screenwriter John Patrick. He then had to adapt the screenplay to include as many
Love Is a Many Strangled Thing the credits, there is a dedication "Dedicated to the Memory of Elizabeth Taylor" beneath a picture of Maggie Simpson. Taylor voiced Maggie's first word, "Daddy", in the fourth season episode "Lisa's First Word". The episode title is a pun on the song "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" based on the Academy Award winning film. A rendition of the classical music theme of Around The World In 80 Days can also be heard briefly at the beginning of the episode. Homer has a dream with three pop culture references to parental abuse in the media, but Homer is the abused victim