 Marlon Green was born in El Dorado, Arkansas.His father, Mickinley Green, was born in 1900, and married Green's future mother, Lucy, on April 10, 1921.Green's brother Rudolph Valentino Green was born in 1928, followed by Marlon (June 6, 1929); Jean Evelyn (1933); James Zell (1936); and Allen David (1941).