[2] Burgess studied drawing, painting, and sculpture at Mrs. Dow's School in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

[8] Burgess depicted a Mexican girl in The Broken Wing, a Paul Dickerson romantic comedy, staged at El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, in July 1931.

[13] In May 1929, two large lamps mounted on a tripod toppled over on a sound stage where Burgess was working at the Fox Movietone Studio.

[15] In December 1931 Burgess signed with First National Pictures for a significant role in Play Girl (1932), which had a screen story by Maude Fulton.

[16] Burgess had a featured role as a romantic rival of Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man (1932), also starring Clark Gable.

(1932), Ladies They Talk About (1933), Strictly Personal (1933), Headline Shooter (1933), Night Flight (1933), Black Moon (1934), and Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934).

[5] Burgess acted with Lowe and Nancy Carroll in the Paramount Pictures release, I Love That Man (1933), directed by Harry Joe Brown and produced by Charles R.

[18] Burgess appeared with Richard Barthelmess and Jean Muir in A Modern Hero (1934), which deals with a young circus rider.

[19] Gambling (1934) starred George M. Cohan, and was produced by Harold B. Franklin at the Eastern Services Studios in Astoria, Queens.

[20] Her role as Trixie in The Lone Star Ranger (1942) represented a return to playing a dance-hall girl, as she did in In Old Arizona.

[22] Burgess was charged with manslaughter following an auto accident in which she was driving; 17-year-old Louise Manfredi died in the wreck, in San Francisco, on the night of December 23, 1932.

Earlier, a compromise amounting to $6,000 was agreed upon for damages claimed by 18-year-old swimmer Betty Lou Davis, who was injured in the same accident.

[26] On August 20, 1961, she died of lung cancer at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.