The music was commissioned by 20th Century Fox for the movie Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (1955). The film producer Buddy Adler asked composer Sammy Fain and lyricist Paul Francis Webster to write a title song for the film. The song has been noted for its similarity to the aria "Un Bel Di Vedremo" from Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" in its downward moving thirds and it's also noted for its memorable lines: 'In the morning mist, two lovers kissed, and the world stood still'. "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song (Oscar) in 1956 and reached the no.1 position in the United States, no.2 in United Kingdom and no.3 in Australia.