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- ↑ "Academy Collections – Carol Littleton". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved January 29, 2021.
- ↑ Betty Littleton: A Family Portrait. AuthorHouse, 2010, ISBN 978-1452043555, pp. 275-295.
- ↑ An Interview with Carol Littleton, ACE . In: medium.com, February 3, 2017
- ↑ University of Oklahoma webpage Archived September 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine retrieved July 9, 2008.
- ↑ Ally., Acker (1991). Reel women : pioneers of the cinema, 1896 to the present . New York: Continuum. ISBN 0826404995. OCLC 22182559.
