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
Mark Elliott (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing) was engaged to Iris Donnelly, but his overachieving mother did not necessarily like Iris. She would prefer that he date Iris' sister, former nun, Laura Donnelly instead. Mark broke off his engagement to Iris, and married Laura, to his mother's delight. Later on, Mark's mother, Helen, after the death of his father, Phil, married Laura's brother, Tom Donnelly, a police officer in San Francisco. Despite his marriage to Laura, Iris wasn't far from his mind. Even when she met and married politician, Spencer Garrison, he still loved her. However, he made a major blunder, when he mistook Iris for his