Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series) Porter paid Jim Abbott to perform an illegal abortion on girlfriend Terry Andrews, who later died, a disenchanted Mia decides to return to Hong Kong. Iris becomes emotionally involved with Jim, but the scandal surrounding Terry Andrews forces him to leave San Francisco for New York. Laura decides not to take her final vows and leaves the church for Mark, who ends his relationship with Iris and begins a career as an architect. Lt. Tom Donnelly (Robert Burr) helps Helen (Grace Albertson, Gloria Hoye) overcome her grief when husband Phillip (Len Wayland) dies suddenly, and after a short courtship, the
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