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-Splendored Thing (song) as "L'Amore E' Una Cosa Meravigliosa". Connie Francis recorded the song in Italian in 1960 during the work for her album "More Italian Favorites", although this version remains unreleased to this day. Francis also recorded the original English lyrics in 1961 for her album "Connie Francis Sings 'Never on Sunday' and Other Title Songs from Motion Pictures". The instrumental playback of this 1961 recording was also used when Francis cut a German-language version, "Sag, weißt du denn, was Liebe ist", in 1966. The song was about that time also performed by Fairuz in Arabian language ("Zar Bisukun Al Lail"). A