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
Margaret Clark (American writer) Margaret Clark (American writer) Margaret Clark (born 1964) is an American historian, writer, and educator. Clark is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her Bachelors of Arts degree from Thomas Edison State College, her Master of Science (MS) degree from Touro University in New York, and has done graduate work at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. In 2017, she was awarded a Master of Letters in Scottish History by the University of Dundee in Scotland. She has written extensively for television and magazines. Her books have been translated into several languages.