[2] Burkett was engaged to be married, but her fiance, an American Expeditionary Forces officer, was killed in France in 1918.

[3] She is best recalled for her silent comedies and her late-in-life appearances in sitcoms and TV commercials.

She appeared in nearly sixty silent films before retiring upon her 1928 marriage to Ralph Leland Zane.

Among her earliest co-stars and friends were Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Al St. John and Stan Laurel.

[4] In 1973, five years after her husband's death, she returned to acting, appearing in three films and a number of television programs and advertisements.