Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series) the hyphen used in the movie's title. In turn, the film was based on the autobiographical novel "A Many-Splendoured Thing" by Han Suyin. "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" focused on lives and loves in San Francisco, California. The title sequence of the show, in fact, was the title of the show superimposed over a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, with a slightly reworked rendition of the movie's signature hit theme. In a rare move for daytime serials of that era, live shots of junk boats from Hong Kong were interspersed with pictures of the real San Francisco, set
Laura Donnelly (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing) the convent and discovered what she wanted from life. She began to see her sister Iris's former fiancé, Mark Elliott, a successful architect in San Francisco. This was good for her, since Mark's stuffy mother, Helen Elliott Donnelly, liked her more than Iris. In a complete irony, Helen would become Laura's sister in-law, as well as her mother in-law, after she married Tom Donnelly, Laura and Iris' older brother, a police officer on the San Francisco Police Department. The two were married and began their lives together. Despite that, Iris was never far from Mark's mind, to the insecure Laura's