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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a american film of genre Drama directed by Henry King released in USA on 18 august 1955 with Jennifer Jones
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
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Add to a movie listLove Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 De Luxe 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 movie was adapted by John Patrick from the 1952 autobiographical novel A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin. The film was directed by Henry King.
The movie later inspired a television soap opera in 1967, though without the hyphen in the show's title.
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The widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin (Jones) falls in love with the married-but-separated American correspondent Mark Elliott (Holden) in Hong Kong, during the period of China's Civil War in the late 1940s. Although they briefly find happiness together, she is ostracized by the greater Chinese community. After losing her position at the hospital, Suyin and her adopted daughter go to live with a friend while Mark is on an assignment during the Korean War. They write to each other constantly.Actors
Jennifer Jones
(Dr. Han Suyin)
William Holden
(Mark Elliott)
Keye Luke
(Lee Foo (uncredited))
Torin Thatcher
(Humphrey Palmer-Jones)
Isobel Elsom
(Adeline Palmer-Jones)
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