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 Lewis, and his wife, Linda Lewis, publicly disclosed that Young had told them in 1998 that she had conceived Judy Lewis when Clark Gable raped her. In 1933, Gable was initiated to the Scottish Rite Freemasonry at the Beverly Hills Lodge No.528 CA. In a photo essay of Hollywood film stars, "Life" magazine called Gable, "All man... and then some". Doris Day summed up Gable's unique personality: "He was as masculine as any man I've ever known, and as much a little boy as a grown man could be – it was this combination that had such a devastating effect