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
A Many-Splendoured Thing A Many-Splendoured Thing A Many-Splendoured Thing is a novel by Han Suyin that was a bestseller when first published in London in 1952 by Jonathan Cape. The book was made into the 1955 film "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing", which also inspired a famous song. In her autobiographical work, "My House Has Two Doors", she evinced no interest in even watching the film in Singapore, where it ran for several months. Her motive in selling the film rights was to pay for an operation in England for her adopted daughter who had pulmonary tuberculosis. It tells the story of a