Mart Crowley was born on August 21, 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. He is known for his work on The Boys in the Band (1970), Hart to Hart (1979) and People Like Us (1990).
After several of his scripts were not produced in the mid-1960s, he was broke, and fell into depression. Close friend Natalie Wood offered him psychoanalysis for a birthday present, which at first he turned down, but wrote about it in his journal. A few months later, regretting not taking her up on the offer, but not knowing how to ask her for it, he took his journal to her house, opened up to that page and showed it to her, which led to her paying for six months worth of appointments for him with a Los Angeles psychiatrist. He credits her for saving his life.
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Says the character of Harold in his seminal work The Boys in the Band (1970), was based on his friend, producer/choreographer Howard Jeffrey.
Was close friends with Natalie Wood. The two first met in 1960 during filming of 'Splendor In The Grass' when Mart was an assistant for Elia Kazan. When Natalie heard that Crowley would be out of a job once the production was finished filming she hired him to be her assistant and secretary. They remained friends until her death in 1981.
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