Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, 1955.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, 1955.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, 1955.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, 1955.

Hong Kong locations and process shots, on a first theoretically not-romantic date between married American journalist Elliott (William Holden) and Anglo-Chinese doctor Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones, playing the author of the underlying autobiographical novel), her own status not yet discussed, in Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, 1955.

Discouraged at work, Anglo-Chinese doctor Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones) is escorted to a Hong Kong party by colleague Dr. Keith (Murray Matheson) where hostess Adeline (Isobel Elsom) seems benevolent if imperialistic, meeting her husband (Torin Thatcher) and journalist Elliott (leading man William Holden), early in Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, 1955.

Boating across a Hong Kong lagoon after an evening with friends, enraptured American correspondent Mark Elliott (William Holden) and widowed Anglo-Chinese doctor Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones) get metaphorical about their future, genuine locations and sound-stages from director Henry King, in Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, 1955.

Eurasian doctor Jennifer Jones meets war correspondent William Holden and discovers Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (1955).