Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film) on the charts. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film) Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 Deluxe color American drama-romance film in CinemaScope. Set in 1949–50 in Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter Mark Elliot (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor Han Suyin originally from China (played by Jennifer Jones), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society. The film was adapted by John Patrick from the 1952 autobiographical novel "A Many-Splendoured Thing" by Han Suyin. The film was directed by Henry
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series) movement of attracting young viewers along with soap opera's traditional audience. The show pre-dated the premieres of "One Life to Live" (1968) and "All My Children" (1970), two other soap operas which also attracted young audiences. However, "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" lacked the guidance of creator/executive producer Agnes Nixon (creator of those two shows). The network kept hiring new head writers and executive producers for its soap operas, creating a lack of continuity in the storytelling. Also a legacy of the show was the music style of Eddie Layton, being more jazz and pop flavored, as opposed to