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
The Virgin Queen (1955 film) The Virgin Queen (1955 film) The Virgin Queen is a 1955 DeLuxe Color historical drama film in CinemaScope starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd and Joan Collins. It focuses on the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Sir Walter Raleigh. The film marks the second time Davis played the English monarch; the first was "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" (1939). It was also the first Hollywood film for Australian actor Rod Taylor. Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. LeMaire won, but for another film, "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"