Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series) now most of you must know that "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" is going off the air with this episode. On behalf of my fellow actors, I would like to tell you how much we enjoyed the privilege of coming into your home for these five and half years. It's not going to be easy for us; it's hard to say goodbye. But, maybe we'll live on in your memories. It now becomes my sad duty to say goodbye to you on behalf of the entire company: the cast, the crew, the production staff, the writers and the directors...all
Laura Donnelly (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing) Laura Donnelly (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing) Laura Donnelly Elliott is a fictional character in the American soap opera "Love is a Many Splendored Thing". She was played by actress Donna Mills, who is closely identified in the role; Laura was also played by Barbara Stanger and Veleka Gray later on. Laura, the daughter of widowed pathologist Dr. Will Donnelly, was studying to be a nun. She was a novitiate, Sister Cecilia, but before she was to take her final vows she discovered that the cloistered and sheltered life of a nun was not what she wanted. She left