Parsons had informants in studio corridors, hairdressers’ salons, and lawyers’ and doctors’ offices. Her husband was a urologist and Hollywood physician, and it was thought that he passed on information he learnt in his position as a studio doctor. She worked from her Beverly Hills home with a staff consisting of a secretary, her assistant reviewer (Dorothy Manners, who worked with Parsons for thirty years), a "leg" man who gathered news and a female reporter who covered café. She had three telephones in her office. She also had former silent stars on her payroll to help them financially.