Language English Role Writer Nationality American Books Ex-wife | Genre Romantic fiction Name Ursula Parrott | |
Born Katherine Ursula Towle
March 26, 1900
Boston, Massachusetts, United States ( 1900-03-26 ) Died September 1957, New York City, New York, United States Spouse A. Coster Schermerhorn (m. 1939–1944) Movies The Divorcee, Next Time We Love, Strangers May Kiss, Love Affair, Gentleman's Fate Similar People Zelda Sears, Nick Grinde, Robert Z Leonard, George Fitzmaurice, Norma Shearer | ||
Children Lindesay Mare Parrott Jr. | ||
Ursula Parrott
Katherine Ursula Towle (March 26, 1900 – September 1957) better known by her pen name Ursula Parrott, was an American writer of romantic fiction stories and novels.
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Works
Parrott's first novel, Ex-Wife, was published in 1929, and was subsequently adapted for film as The Divorcee starring Norma Shearer (who won an Oscar for her role) in 1930. Shearer also starred in an adaptation of the 1930 Strangers May Kiss. Her novel Next Time We Live was adapted for film as Next Time We Love in 1936.
Personal life
Parrott was married four times. Her marriage to the journalist Lindesay Marc Parrott lasted from 1924 to 1928; her second to the banker Charles Greenwood in 1931 lasted a year. Parrott's third marriage, to the theatrical lawyer and producer John J. Wildberg in 1934, ended in June 1938. Her final marriage, to Alfred Coster Schermerhorn, officially ended in 1944.
In December 1942, Parrott became the subject of national coverage when she was brought up on Federal charges of attempting to help the jazz guitarist Michael Neely Bryan escape from the Miami Beach Army stockade, but was found innocent by the jury at her trial.
Parrott died in New York in 1957, apparently in poverty.