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
Jim Clark (film editor) BAFTA Awards for his editing of the films "Vera Drake" (directed by Mike Leigh-2004) and "Marathon Man" (directed by John Schlesinger-1976). In 2005, Clark received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. Responding to a question about the major influences on his editing, Clark said As a director he was responsible for "Rentadick" (1972) and "Madhouse" (1974) starring Vincent Price. Clark lived in Kensington with his wife Laurence Méry-Clark, also a film and television editor. They married in 1961 and had three children. In 2011, Clark's autobiography "Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing" was published, receiving warm reviews from "The