Vivien Leigh friendship developed after he congratulated her on her performance. Olivier and Leigh began an affair while acting as lovers in "Fire Over England" (1937), but Olivier was still married to actress Jill Esmond. During this period, Leigh read the Margaret Mitchell novel "Gone with the Wind" and instructed her American agent to recommend her to David O. Selznick, who was planning a film version. She remarked to a journalist, "I've cast myself as Scarlett O'Hara", and "The Observer" film critic C. A. Lejeune recalled a conversation of the same period in which Leigh "stunned us all" with the assertion that
Mickey Kuhn the role of Beau Wilkes (Ashley and Melanie's son) in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). He later went on to appear in "Juarez" (1939) opposite Bette Davis, as the adoptive son of John Wayne in "Red River", and in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), in which he was reunited with Vivien Leigh a dozen years after they first worked together in "Gone with the Wind". In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Kuhn played a sailor who directs Blanche to the correct streetcar which will take her to her sister's neighborhood at the beginning of the film. He is the only actor