In 1946 Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh declined an offer of one million dollars to star in a filmation of the Taylor Caldwell novel ''This Side of Innocence'', then at #1 on the ''New York Times'' Bestsellers list.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume
One, 1981-1985, pages 123-125. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1998.