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
Clark Gable filmography Clark Gable filmography Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) appeared as an "extra" in thirteen films between 1924 and 1930. He also appeared in sixty seven films, as himself in seventeen "short subject" films, and he narrated for the World War II propaganda film, "Combat America", produced by the United States Army Air Forces. During the period 1924–1930, Clark Gable established himself as a major stage actor. Also during this period, Gable supplemented his income by working as an "extra" in motion pictures. Below is a listing of the films that Gable is known or believed to