Movie
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Overview
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
Details
- Release date
- 1955-08-18
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Jennifer Jones as Dr. Han Suyin
- William Holden as Mark Elliott
- Torin Thatcher as Humphrey Palmer-Jones
- Isobel Elsom as Adeline Palmer-Jones
- Murray Matheson as Dr. John Keith
- Virginia Gregg as Anne Richards
- Richard Loo as Robert Hung
- Soo Yong as Nora Hung
- Philip Ahn as Third Uncle
- Jorja Curtright as Suzanne
- Donna Martell as Suchen, Suyin's sister
- Keye Luke as Lee Foo
Crew
- Henry King - Director
- John Patrick - Screenplay
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