Ethel Marie Burton Movies

Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy

The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.

A very early Pokes & Jabbs with Billy Ruge filling in for the absent Walter Stull.  Pokes and Runt try to impress a couple of girls at Palisades...

A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy...

A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).

Props, the stage man, and his assistant at the Orpheum Theater, Plunkville divide their time equally between drinking and attention to duty. Trouble...

In this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hardy (doing his best Eric Campell). A barber by...

A comedy involving tiger skins.

Shifty Mike attempts to force his attentions on Jabbs' daughter, but is thwarted. Vowing revenge, Mike hires Pokes to throw a bomb through Jabbs'...

Pokes, the property man at the Vim theater, incurs the hostility of Prof. Jabbs the wonderful Escape King on the opening day of the performance.

Slippery Pokes oversees the daily chaos of his new vaudeville stage, juggling the antics of the Limber Brothers and the Fickle Sisters.

After being fired from his job as an office porter, Pokes takes up book sales and makes it his mission to sell a volume to his former tormentor,...

Appointed city dog catcher, the indolent Pokes is pushed into the job by his wife and quickly becomes overzealous in his pursuit of stray dogs,...

Hearing so much about the wonderful charms of music, Pokes decides to present his sweetheart, Ethel, with a piano, in order to win her love. On her...

Jabbs sends his only suit to be pressed before a big date, but the tailor shop burns down. Pokes breaks into Jabbs' room but he's discovered and...