She married the piano player who was hired to play during her Sunday radio show poetry readings. Her husband also wrote songs with Tex Ritter.
She used her mothers maiden name of "Morrison" as her stage name. She
felt no one in the entertainment industry would take her seriously as
an actress with the name "Parrott".
She tested but didn't get the part of "Mrs. Olsen" in the Folgers
coffee commercials from the 1970s.