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Ursula Parrott (March 26, 1899 [1] – September 1957), was a prolific modern novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer whose sensational first novel, Ex-Wife (1929), was a Jazz Age best seller. Adapted for film as The Divorcee, it starred Norma Shearer.
Ex-Wife is a 1929 novel written by Ursula Parrott and reissued by McNally Editions in 2023 with an afterword by Marc Parrott, the author's son, and a foreword by Alissa Bennett, a writer for the Paris Review.
Jul 10, 2024 · Associated Press. Hollywood called, turning “Ex-Wife” into “The Divorcee” (1930), a box-office smash that earned Norma Shearer her only Academy Award, for best actress.
Apr 30, 2023 · The novelist Ursula Parrott, left, faced charges for helping a boyfriend, Michael Neely Bryan, desert the Air Force — one of many instances of her notoriety. Associated Press. By Alexandra...
Apr 18, 2023 · Ursula Parrott became “sufficiently important,” and then she was forgotten. Widely read and highly sought after in her heyday, she suffered the fate of many women authors of her time, dismissed as a money-writer churning out romantic pablum for undiscerning female readers.
May 3, 2023 · Ursula Parrott’s “Ex-Wife” caused a sensation when it was published in 1929. But it wasn’t the racy, frothy endorsement of sexual liberation readers were primed to expect. By Jessica Winter
Ursula Parrott (March 26, 1899 – September 1957), was an American writer of romantic novels. Her first book, Ex-Wife (1929), was a best seller, and was adapted for film as The Divorcee, starring Norma Shearer. Exploring changing sexual mores and their implications for women, Ex-Wife was considered scandalous in its time.
Oct 4, 2024 · Ursula Parrott was a prolific and popular writer from the late 1920s to 1945. Sat Oct 05 2024 - 00:00. Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott (Faber £9.99) Originally published in the US...
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott - An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandal...
Apr 21, 2023 · By August of 1929, conjecture had correctly zeroed in on Katherine Ursula Parrott (née Towle), a journalist and fashion writer who seemed to bear an uncanny resemblance to her bobbed and brushed heroine.
