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
Mitchell (film) Season 11 head writer Elliott Kalan selected "Mitchell" as his ninth-favorite MST3K episode. The "MST3K" version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video in November 2001 with the theatrical trailer as an extra. On November 26, 2013, Shout! Factory re-released the "MST3K" version of the film as a bonus feature on their 25th Anniversary Edition DVD boxed set. The film's theme song, "Mitchell," was performed by country music singer Hoyt Axton. Mitchell (film) Mitchell is a 1975 American action film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, written by Ian Kennedy Martin, and starring Joe Don Baker as an abrasive