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- ↑ "'Miss Lulu Bett' Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed December 19, 2015
- ↑ "Pulitzer Prize, 1921" pulitzer.org, accessed December 19, 2015
- ↑ Gale, Zona. Script for Miss Lulu Bett, archive.org, accessed December 19, 2015.
- ↑ "'Miss Lulu Bett' Characters" encyclopedia.com, accessed December 19, 2015
- ↑ Miss Lulu Bett silentfilm.org, accessed December 19, 2015
- ↑ Miss Lulu Bett imdb.com, accessed December 19, 2015
