Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn,

where it always connects. Thank you for joining me today to bring Mart Crowley into our investigation.

Mark Crowley, American playwright, most famous for his 1968 play The Boys in the Band. In today's journey,

we are covering everything before 1968. Mart's Southern Childhood, his educational journey,

his launch into the Hollywood scene, and his besties, Natalie Wood and Lenny Dunn.

Let's investigate. Edward Martino Crowley is an August 21st baby, born in 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

He is most definitely a southern boy.

And Vicksburg has quite a bit of history. It is the location of the

siege that turned the tide of the Civil War, also where Coca-Cola was first bottled. Lots of pride down in

Vicksburg, not quite the queer kind. Mart will spend a lot of his time in childhood, like a lot of other kids

do, going to the local movie theater. There's only one in town, but Mart is going to watch every

single movie he can. He would have loved to have actually seen live theater, but there's not a

playhouse in Vicksburg for a hot minute. Hold on to that,

though, because there will be one coming pretty soon. Movies were his world, and this is where

Mark Crowley says he develops his writer's imagination. In addition to the movies, there is a library,

and Mart spends a lot of time there.

What makes the library so cool?

They carry a publication called Theater Arts Magazine, which will publish scripts in it.

Mart reads every single one he can.

His childhood is less than ideal.

He comes from a super dysfunctional family.

Here are the high level details.

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