Mart Crowley(1935-2020)

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.

I feel my whole life is observing, and I wish I could get into the action. I came from a very ugly background and a very ugly small town with people with very ugly attitudes. I had a need for beauty, and I think I share that with lots of people. That need comes simply because of all of the sordidness and unhappiness and resentment as well as the calamity of growing up gay when I was growing up. That's a roundabout way of saying I never felt too included.