Trivia

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.

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.

His long time friendship with Natalie Wood led to his being hired as a producer on Robert Wagner's Hart to Hart (1979) television series.

Is godfather of Natasha Gregson Wagner.

Says the character of Harold in his seminal work The Boys in the Band (1970), was based on his friend, producer/choreographer Howard Jeffrey.

He studied drama at the Catholic University in Washington DC.

Stated in one of his last appearances in the documentary "Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind," that the last thing her mother said to him at Natalie's funeral was that if he had been on "that boat" the night she died, she would still be alive.

Wrote "The Boys In The Band" while housesitting for actress Diana Lynn.

Wrote the screenplay "Cassandra At The Wedding" for Natalie Wood but Darryl Zanuck shelved it because she would play twin sisters, one of whom was a lesbian.

Wrote a tv pilot, "The Decorator" for producer Dominick Dunne that was to feature Bette Davis as an interior decorator. The network didn't pick it up.

Classmates with James Rado (Hair) at American University in Washington, DC.