Love Is A Many Splendored Thing | Soundtrack Suite (Alfred Newman)

[@perveendiwanji5229]

British Hong Kong! Those born and bred in British Hong Kong like me cannot forget those beautiful scenarios of Hong Kong in this movie shot in 1955! Hong Kong has changed thereafter. The music and the true story adds to the pain of loss.

[@jdgoade1306]

Alfred Newman was the man.

[@robertoincutti4712]

One of the most romantic soundtracks ever…. I was only a little boy and yet my heart was taken by this magical movie … Actors and music a mesmerising work of art!♥️🇮🇹🇬🇧

[@larshansson9442]

Of course you are right in every word.

[@markr.devereux3385]

Alfred Newman a genius of movie scores. He has given many of us millions great pleasure. I love the movement at 3:50 that's when they climb down to the cove to swim. Ooooh

[@ABDULWAHEED-nu5pj]

Ultimately a soul touching.

[@lorrainechandler7864]

One of my favorite films.I was born in 1955,the year this film was made.This was the film which introduced me to William Holden-I was twelve years old.He is my favorite actor. Thank You for sharing.💙

[@markr.devereux3385]

He is my favorite leading man I came into the world in 1952 and I remember the 50s well. SUNSET BLVD and this are my all time favorites. The counterfeit traitor and BREEZY are 2 others

[@walterpellesi5132]

One day a long time ago my mother gave me a book to read that had thrilled her as a young girl in the 1950s, it was Love Is a many splendoured thing by Han Suyen. Since then I fell in love with this story, which is the biography of the writer, I began to love everything written about her and so I fell in love with China. Yes, Love is a Wonderful Thing is one of the most beautiful love stories and Han Suyen my favorite writer

[@visarbilali3419]

Last year it was a pleasure to air it on my midnight, live, radio program, ‘Film Soundtracks’, on Radio Tirana !

[@notaire2]

What a beautiful and unforgettable main title, which never gets old even more than sixty years later!

[@rayl7335]

When I was a kid back in the early sixties, the sound of this score used to comfort me and still does. One of the most beautiful and emotional compositions ever written for a movie soundtrack, period!

[@anne-marielechevalier1873]

Magnifique histoire d’amour réelle,la musique a recu de nombreux prix!

[@DainGerrUsss]

ALFRED NEWMAN - GENIUS SUPREME, IN MY BOOK !!!!!!!

[@SandViolet]

"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" had its world premiere on August 18, 1955, at New York City's Roxy Theatre and I saw it two weeks later as part of my 12th birthday celebration. It immediately became one of my favorite movies of all time and even today, 63 years later, it still is. It's a wonderful, heartbreaking love story with superb performances by a sublime Jennifer Jones and a beyond charming William Holden (this movie and "Picnic", his back-to-back films of 1955, made him the #1 box office star in the world), but what makes this movie such an unforgettable classic is its soundtrack and title song, my favorite Oscar-winning song of all time. Thank you so much for creating and posting this Soundtrack Suite, Fred. I get a lump in my throat every time I listen to it.

[@SoundtrackFred]

Thank you very much for your lovely comment!

[@Fabsurf101]

We used to swim stone throw away from those beach scenes so it definitely has a special meaning to us. Thank God for Sammy Fain and Paul F Webster penned down this smash hit that is still so memorable. William Holden did another movie " The World of Suzie Wong" in Hong Kong around 1960.

[@MarissaBollywood]

Wow thats so neat! Can I ask the name of the beach? I was always curious where that scene was filmed.

[@lenalundberg3701]

Love is a many splendored thing is one of myt absolute favourite melodies.

[@sunnyshores7520]

And the Theme from Gone with the Wind - Tara

[@yamanuha]

@@sunnyshores7520 ¹¹1¹¹

[@paulconnors2078]

I remember seeing this movie as a young teenager on Long Island in the 1960s and being entranced by the romance and the music and because I hoped I would find a love like this when I grew up. It was the same feeling I had when I first saw SOMEWHERE IN TIME in 1980 when I lived in Los Angeles. I am now 62 and every time I hear this beautiful music, I know why so many young couples in 1955 fell in love to it. Unfortunately, I never met the woman of my dreams, but the music and this timeless story still captures me each and every time I watch it.

[@billmclean2679]

Golly Gee!

[@helenaville5939]

Such a beautifully composed comment. Thank you Paul.

[@hedonistically]

I hope you will. There is no age limit for love! Cheers!

[@bentovasconcelos8556]

I'm sorry about you, Paul. I founded a love as I always dreamed. But now, she is not like she was on 60th.

[@dudleybarber7199]

Can't add anything to that Paul except to say ,that as long as we breath love will always be ready to catch you out.

[@shariapplegate8015]

Love all these soundtracks, had them playing all day. Can't beat this movie, love it. So many good memories of the movies i have seen

[@GeoStrum3]

I remember that seeing this very adult film as a child I sat in awe and was mesmerized and not bored as a child would be. I understood everything and loved it ever since.

[@johnjdevlin2610]

Hearing that lush, lovely score brought tears to my eyes. The beauty of it is altogether incomparable. Thank you, Soundtrack Fred, for posting it. And thank you, Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster and Alfred Newman, for the magnificent music.

[@josescorza1882]

el ser humano que no vio esta pelicula se perdio lo hermoso que es el amor verdadero, la musica una delicia para los oidos.

[@Tinsby]

The movie title is taken from a poem called "The Kingdom of God" by Francis Thompson. The one poem verse that contains the words is: The angels keep their ancient places- Turn but a stone and start a wing! ‘Tis ye, ’tis your estrangèd faces, That miss the many-splendored thing. At one point in the film, Holden does recite the verse correctly, to Jennifer Jones. But it goes by so quickly that I don't think most people notice it. Few know that the film is based on the book by Han Suyin, called A Many Splendoured Thing. Essentially her biography, the movie is based on her life. Which only makes it all the more poignant imho.

[@markr.devereux3385]

I know it is an awkward title for a film I'm glad the listened to reason and kept it. It is very poetic and deserving of this incredible motion picture.

[@Fabsurf101]

Thanks for the tidbit of information how the title might have come about and the music is certainly lovely to match.

[@jonathanfarrell2378]

There’s a melodic similarity between this score and the one in the 1959 sword & sandal epic The Robe. Especially during the tender moments of dialogue and romance. Alfred Newman was very gifted.

[@mangiafrani]

The Robe 1953 not 1959.

[@boborrahood]

We need to give proper credit for the melody of the title song, composed by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. Of course, Alfred Newman wrote the score and beautifully arranged that melody from the song.

[@jslasher1]

I was all of 12 when I saw this film with my parents. I recall that my mother cried at the end. So, too, did I. Alfred Newman's score is memorable.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

The third member of this love affair is the city of Hong Kong. This movie was how I first came to know Hong Kong and it stayed in my mind this way for many years, until the Wong Kar Wei movies came out in the late '80s and '90s. Then I knew a different Hong Kong. Today we see a new Hong Kong that is completely unrecognizable to the Hong Kong of the '50s or '90s. I hope one day I can see it with my own eyes. If I ever do, I will surely think of that "high and windy hill" (even though I know it was really on a 20th Century-Fox back lot).

[@joyceg9295]

Welcome and hope you will enjoy when you will visit🥂

[@annatricarico5547]

Bellissimo film🥰🥰

[@chrischristopoulos970]

Marvelous song

[@Vaejovis357]

Sammy Fain composed that song. Paul Webster was the lyricist. Alfred Newman orchestrated and scored the movie.

[@kschu7883]

The background of this movie in Hong Kong. However, many HongKonger do not watch. The song is a very good song. I am very luck and listen to it.

[@DonAlbert21]

Maravillosa, wunderschön and wonderful music !!

[@jamesmonroe7903]

When my Mom and Dad were dating,they saw this at the Fox in St.Louis,MO! It’s still a favorite of Mom’s! William Holden was her favorite actor back in the day! She thought he was the cat’s meow!🐅What a film!👌

[@yokoblue3208]

何回見ても泣ける映画…。 そしてこの、感動の曲。 私の大好きな映画ベスト10に入っています。

[@ArizonaAirspace]

This was truly a classic. Beautiful and moving story that came alive with this magnificently sweet sentimental song. Jennifer Jones was my father’s favorite actress. It is heart wrenching to watch her in the last scene up on that hill with the theme song “Love is a Many Splendor Thing” playing in the background. This movie makes you realize how fragile life really is. Chinese believe lovers whose love was cut short are destined to meet each other again in their next life to complete it. I sure hope that’s true.

[@demon1030able]

My absolute favourite song, but especially when sung by the original Four Aces in 1955.

[@usmale4915]

You are 100 percent correct! The lyrics are fantastic as are the Four Aces!

[@lilaliapeluffo4607]

Pelicula y musica muy hermosa!!!

[@jamesholt3758]

I feel sorry for any one who dislikes this song and movie.

[@scottandrew8590]

Perfect score to a lovely, memorable movie...

[@hollydrucker3011]

I cry when I see the end of the movie , I am a sucker for these films. And a true romantic. JJ ate garlic just before a love scene with Bill Holden. They hated each other off screen.

[@usmale4915]

You forgot that Jenifer Jones also ate quite a few onions as well!

[@hollydrucker3011]

@@usmale4915 Yes, but you would not know this they were both pros.

[@brunomellini54]

Stupendo!!!!

[@067richard]

am i the only millennial who enjoy this kinda music more?

[@MarissaBollywood]

Nope I’m a millennial and I love this movie and the music. They sure dont make them like they used to!

[@prinsol313]

Love the music and the story behind.... So romantic

[@rader304]

Wonderful music....thank you.

[@johnmusalo1545]

IF ONE LIKE WORDS HEAR ME SING THIS ON YOU TUBE

[@franciscochagas7115]

Olá,Olga.Boa.Boa noite!!!Estava sem Internet e em consequência estava sem poder me comunicar com você.Gomo estás??

[@nogrits4me]

I hope that some of the younger generation here will make an effort to see the movie. I have it on streaming Netflix and I've watched it twice there. I saw the original release in 1955. The song is hauntingly beautiful and touching. William Holden got star billing over Jennifer Jones. According to Wikipedia, although there is romantic cinematic chemistry between the two of them, they did not get along on the set and could barely stand each other during filming. The exterior scenes were shot in Hong Kong. Sixty-one years ago, there weren't many skyscrapers to be seen. It's a very good movie with excellent music.

[@willyboy3581]

I'd read the same thing about the off-screen relationship between William Holden and Jennifer Jones being cold to the point that they could barely be civil to each other (though according to at least one source, Holden did try for a "truce," sending Jones a large, expensive bouquet; this overture was rejected and the flowers tossed away.) Under these circumstances, it's interesting to note that five or six later, in discussing casting possibilities for the male lead in "Tender is the night" with her husband, David Selznick, Miss Jones suggested William Holden. (The role eventually went to Jason Robards, Jr.)

[@blessOTMA]

Wow if they didn't get along, that only raises my admiration for their acting ability....because their scenes are hot

[@miljenkohaeuselmaier1872]

nogrits4me a

[@petermartin3394]

that's professionalism for you!

[@Marcel_Audubon]

I'm a fetus and I just checked in out on NetflixWomb - satisfied?

[@angelomietto4365]

Lá pelo ano 1962 quando eu tinha uns 14 anos assisti esse filme e no final chorei de tanta emoção. Não precisa dizer que fiquei um bom tempo apaixonado pela Jennifer Jones e até hoje quando escuto essa música volta-me aquela sensação de início da adolescência...

[@simone42fidalgofidalgo25]

Eu vi a primeira vez com 9 anos,na tv,em 1972. Depois nunca mais parei de ver. Já tive vhs,depois dvd. Filme lindo Casal lindo Trilha sonora linda Sei praticamente todas as falas,já sei onde choro,kkkk Adoro as roupas da Dra Hein Adoro Jennifer Jones

[@blessOTMA]

Thank you for posting this wonderful score

[@krimson6605]

i cant believe i just discovered this now! amazing!!

[@l2084]

+allysa therese Better late than never!

[@sunnyshores7520]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you and Thank You!!!!

[@윤인철-t6f]

굳~

[@deacondavis5098]

BEAUTIFUL

[@alcidescarlossbalqueiro3397]

Estou descobrindo filmes fantásticos, que hoje em dia não existem mais. A cultura de hoje é a de consumo rápido, neste tempo podia se flutuar nos pensamentos através destas películas maravilhosas.

[@ALNAZARIO212]

***ONE OF THE BEST LOVE WAR MOVIES EVER, WITH A SAD ENDING***

[@Darrigrande]

The end is very sad, like most of the great love stories!

[@SandViolet]

Over 217K views over the last 7 years, at least 1K must be mine. I can't get enough of it!

[@willyboy3581]

Fred, thanks so much for posting this. When I was a little boy, my family and I were visiting in Hong Kong at the time the location work was being done for the film (indeed, we were actually at Kai Tak Airport when the sequence of Jennifer Jones meeting William Holden on his return from Singapore was being shot). The film obviously has very special memories for me (in addition to which, a viewer sees a Hong King that will never be seen again)., and listening to this suite brings it all back. Again, my thanks!

[@MrForttunate]

+William Lindesmith it's not just the scenery we will never see again , the amazing all round talent i.e. the inspired lyrics of paul francis webster , the enigmatic jennifer jones , the charm of william holden , the direction of henry king , etc. etc. but we are fortunate , we have the movies and the music ,so we can travel back in time whenever we want .

[@willyboy3581]

+Daniel Forte You're right, Daniel. In fact, from my vantage point as a 64-year old, your comments could be prefaced with the classic fairy-story "Once upon a time ...". when we took all the vast resources of the major studios (in this case, 20th Century-Fox), for granted: the stars under contract; a roster of staff directors and writers; and the vast technical crews (cinematographers, costume/set designers, music departments) at their fingertips. And, oh!, the magic they created. We'll never see the likes of them again, but the magic DOES live on in those films. (And having written this, I'm going to have to dig out my copy of "Love is a many-splendored thing" and re-watch it for the umpteenth time ...)

[@MrForttunate]

+William Lindesmith i do think william , we can be forgiven if we did take the sheer all round magic that the studio system created back in the day for granted , how could we know the deterioration would be so rapid and so devastating , we went from monet to throwing paint on a piece of canvas and calling it art , but i think we have done a little better than generations before us , for only time has vindicated the names of rembrandt , van gogh , and many others who died penniless , we can't recreate bogart and bergman , no actress is going to sound like (forget how the looked) grace and audrey , and who's going to write :HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU KIDD ' .

[@paulconnors2078]

And 50 years after the UK handover, if the Communist Party is still ruling China, you won't see any freedoms in Hong Kong, either.

[@jakerodriguez3202]

Definitely a Hong Kong never to be seen again. It was actually a good place to be up until the early 80,s. My first memories of Hong Kong as a young boy of 8 in 1970. I lived there on and off in the late 80's till the early 90',s. All those memories of a bygone gentle era never to be seen again.

[@pmajudge]

HMMMMMM!! ITS ALWAYS THE MUSIC THAT PUTS THE PASSION/DRAMA/ ETC:A GREAT MOVIE AND LIFT INDEED!!THANKS!FROM(U.K.).

[@keikosaito5034]

Uma das Mais Bela Música ... Filme So Lágrimas....Willian Falece...Amor Inesquecível de Outras Vidas!...Quando a Gente Encontra S/ Alma .... E Ele Vai.... Quem Não Passou Por Isto.......

[@alejandrotorres1382]

INOLVIDABLE MUSICA PARA UNA INOLVIDABLE PELICULA..

[@orlandorealpecordoba]

Maravillosa melodía. Saludos desde Colombia.

[@juilliardpark]

Need to clarify: The song "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" was composed by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. Alfred Newman did the background musical scoring and served as musical director. All three great talents.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

Newman = orchestration, too - so beautiful!

[@michaelmancini2219]

They would both again reunite in Towering Inferno 1974

[@rjmcallister1888]

By this time, studios realized the need for a hit song to help promote the movie in an era where attendance had dropped like a rock, no, boulder, due to television. Sometimes, lyrics were added to a theme in the soundtrack, or, in this case, outside writers put one together and it was fitted into the soundtrack, which Newman does well here.

[@usmale4915]

CinemaScope also helped!

[@grannydyess]

Excellent movie

[@jeffhoneycutt7665]

About five notes in and I am weepy. I'm not sure who wrote it, whether it was Fain/Webster for the title song and Newman for the rest. It doesn't matter. It's another Newman masterpiece.

[@miltonmoore8369]

What you stated is correct.👍

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

MARAVILLOSA MÚSICA¡¡¡

[@adrianovasconcelos2739]

I did not particularly like the film but the soundtrack is first class. Alfred Newman - a real talent!

[@helenaville5939]

I adored the film. It's one of my lifetime favourites.

[@miltonmoore5294]

"De gustubus non est disputandem."

[@jamesmonroe7903]

P.S. This film’s theme song was used in the opening scene of the film “Grease”!

[@ArkleyBarnet]

That's how I discovered it and glad I did.

[@canman5060]

Best box office movie in Hong Kong.

[@saherabdelaziz247]

amazing movie

[@hernanrepetto4365]

Im agree!

[@juanturcios9535]

Bella música para una joya cinematografica...!

[@sidneysi9193]

A cena final desse filme,na colina........ meu deus, chorei muito!! Lindo demais,o que temos hoje de extraordinário nos cinemas???? Tirando O Senhor dos Anéis,que não é para qualquer gosto,ou u Titanic,o resto é lixo

[@MrRinaldijunior]

Musicas como estas não se fazem mais hoje em dia elas foram feitas com a alma e dirigida por Deus

[@simone42fidalgofidalgo25]

Nunca mais

[@carolinegodden4364]

🔥 🔥 🔥 🌌

[@simone42fidalgofidalgo25]

Minha música favorita de filme. Amo esse filme!

[@mariapaulavieiradeoliveira8817]

Eu tenho o DVD deste lindo filme.

[@digital843]

A favorite of a Korean War vet

[@simone42fidalgofidalgo25]

Música maravilhosa

[@simone42fidalgofidalgo25]

Maravilhosa Música divina

[@jean-pierrebro1929]

Et un tres beau film à revoir: LA COLLINE DE L'ADIEU;

[@DME309]

Beloved Creator 🌹 Thank You for Love 💘

[@marthaayala3291]

Hermoso.

[@nelsongcova]

Unbelievable...

[@mattiethomas7231]

I like it🎉

[@miltonmoore5294]

A film theme too beautiful for words! Except perhaps these by Edwin Markham: "Oh, what the long reaches of the peaks of song, the rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose"....... (from "Man With The Hoe." Unfortunately, this venerable poet had died long before this immortal film score was composed. But his profound description of beautiful music is certainly applicable for this timeless masterpiece. Brook Benton has a gorgeous version of the popular song for which Paul Francis Webster supplied the lyrics. Also well worth a listen is Brook Benton singing my favorite "torch song," "That Old Feeling."

[@seangallagher4519]

I came here to research a music box as the title it has inscribed on the bottom is "love is a many-splendored thing". The charming minimal tones of a music box set inside a porcelain of two humming birds around a single flower, made by Otagiri Japan, was given to me April 29th, 2024 following my grandmother Mickey Gallagher's memorial service. If anyone here hasn't spent time with your family, friends, and loved ones recently: Make the time or amends needed and see them. I assure you, no matter the journey required it will be a much better gift and memory than an item left to you after they are gone.

[@CyMBoLiK33ViBeZ]

It’s my destiny ...... track name 🤘🏽

[@jln195399]

William Holden!!!!

[@sunnyshores7520]

I know!!!!!! December 26, 2019!!!!!!

[@gemini730lory8]

💙💙💙

[@Skidoo22]

The opening orchestrated by Edward Powell by the sounds of it

[@SoundtrackFred]

You are correct, it was indeed Powell!

[@jeannemclamb1277]

No more movies like this anymore.

[@PaulRietvoorn]

Double like

[@StephenTurner-eq3ys]

In the track "Destiny" there is a phrase that sounds very much like the melody of "I Have Dreamed (that your eyes are lovely)" from "The King and I" which 20th Century Fox released the year after this film. Coincidence?

[@梅澤享一]

慕情の映画は，私しの青春時代の時で香港まで行ってかましたも日本語で訳してもらえば幸いですも少し長く見たいですね2人の俳優さんが大好きウィリアム，ホールデンさん宜しくお願いします🥺

[@GeoStrum3]

The opening phrase reminds me of Un Bel Di from Madame Butterfly. I heard a soloist who did this. She began with Un Bel Di and went right into this very song. It was lovely.

[@garthly]

George Strum That was surely deliberate, updating the Madam Butterfly story into a then “modern” version - albeit with a few questionable shifts, and then similarly modifying Puccini’s famous aria into a popular song.

[@SandViolet]

Mantovani has a beautiful rendition which begins with the opening notes of "Un Bel Di". Check it out- it's breathtaking.

[@paulconnors2078]

Han Suyin later said she never saw the movie and having read about her, I understand why. This movie is a very fictionalized version of her life, to include the movie portrayal of her as being anti-Communist. Despite the fact that her first husband was a Nationalist General, she later came to be very pro-Communist, believing that the Communist Party of China led by Mao did so much to advance the growth of China, its industries and its status in the world. Quite bluntly, I find that her belief in Communism as practiced by the Chinese as a potential solution for China's manifold problems a rather hideous approach to that country's issues of the time. After doing my research on Dr. Han, I lost a great deal of respect for her. She became for me, just another 'apologist' for Communist tyranny. In that vein, I hold her in the same degree of contempt that I do for the more overt practitioners of Communism and its soul-destroying tyranny.

[@elcid9478]

Love is a many splendored thing. Is that it. All of it. I dont think so. This is just a glimpse.

[@francoisknoerle9496]

Thank you so much,Soundtrack Fred!! Do you have the soundtrack of "The sun of flowers"? Salutations from France!

[@CyMBoLiK33ViBeZ]

#3 gave me Zelda Oot Spirit temple ViBeZ. Sampling for sure then drumming some dope shit to it like always

[@georgediiorio1065]

Conclusion. Queen without. A. K. I. N. G.

[@FooFahFoeFum]

I love Jennifer Jones. She never played or acted in easy roles. She was not beautiful but was down to earth sexy and believable. Does anyone know if the hospital she worked at, is a real building in Hong Kong or a Hollywood façade? Also that lush garden overlooking the port with terra Cota tiles, does anyone know the real location on google maps?

[@信幸安井]

昭和48年有楽町スバル座で女友達と見ました もう45年も経ちました

[@farzinh154]

عالی

[@jslasher1]

Alfred Newman died of lung cancer from smoking. A warning to other would-be geniuses out there.

[@willyboy3581]

Yep, at the relatively young age of 68. I've noticed that in many of the pics. of Newman posted on the 'Net (including some by Soundtrack Fred), a cigarette can be seen.

[@miltonmoore5294]

Two of William Holden's sons succumbed to lung cancer, at ages 52 and 58. Holden was a "chain smoker" but was not suffering from any known cancer at the time of his death at 63.

[@narimankarimi9903]

🎥 & 🎶👄🖤💔

[@rickker20]

Why did they have to make him a married man? It would have been better if he was single guy.

[@helenaville5939]

It was based on a true story and in real life he was a married man.

[@rickker20]

You are so correct she was a real person Han Suyin died in 2012 at the age of 95.

[@narayananseetharaman8656]

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[@hudsony777]

Wonderful, but I always disliked the smarmy title of the film.

[@farzinh154]

عالی