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
A Many Splendored Thing (Homicide: Life on the Street) the duration of the show, NBC executives asked for several refinements – including fewer episode subplots and less camera movements and jump cuts – before approving a second season. "A Many Splendored Thing" was the second season finale. The season premiere, "", was originally meant to serve as the finale, but NBC decided to instead open the season with it, with the hopes of getting increased ratings from a guest appearance by actor Robin Williams. The title "A Many Splendored Thing" is a reference to the 1952 historical romance novel "A Many-Splendoured Thing" and the subsequent film "Love Is a