The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 1959. The film is recognised by American Film Institute in these lists: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 DeLuxe Color 20th Century Fox CinemaScope film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War. Directed by Mark Robson, who received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt Jürgens as her love interest, Captain Lin Nan, a Chinese officer with a
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness insulting to his Chinese lineage. She also felt her reputation damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes in the film; not only had she never kissed any man, but also the film's ending portrayed her character abandoning the orphans in order to join the captain elsewhere, even though in reality she did not retire from working with orphans until she was 60 years old. In real life, Aylward and Lin Nan were not reunited—he was lost in the war and she never knew what happened to him. The film was the second most popular film at the British box office in