Name Ann Codee Role Actress | Spouse Frank Orth (m. ?–1961) | |
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Died May 18, 1961, Hollywood, California, United States Movies Kings Go Forth, Bathing Beauty, Kiss Me Kate, Come Live with Me, Can‑Can Similar People Frank Orth, Dorothy Kingsley, George Sidney, Delmer Daves, Walter Lang | ||
1959 ONE STEP BEYOND - "The Dark Room" - Cloris Leachman
Ann Codee (March 5, 1890–May 18, 1961) was a Belgian actress with numerous hit films on her résumé such as Can-Can, Kiss Me Kate and Interrupted Melody. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, her name was sometimes found in newspapers as Anna Cody.
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Codee was born as Anna Marie Vannuefflin on March 5, 1890 in Antwerp. She married actor Frank Orth around 1911 or so. She and her husband toured American vaudeville in the 1910s and 1920s as the comedy act "Codee and Orth". The team made its film debut in 1929, appearing in a series of multilingual movie shorts. Thereafter, both Codee and Orth flourished as Hollywood character actors. Codee was seen in dozens of films as florists, music teachers, landladies, governesses and grandmothers. She played a variety of ethnic types, from the very French Mme. Poullard in Jezebel (1938) to the Gallic Tante Berthe in The Mummy's Curse (1941).
Codee's last film appearance was as a tight-corseted committeewoman in Can-Can (1960). Her career highlights include her part in the Natalie Wood film Kings Go Forth (1948) and the Oscar-nominated Ann Miller film Kiss Me Kate (1953). She also had an uncredited role as the biologist Dr. Dupree in the 1953 film The War of the Worlds.
She died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California on May 18, 1961.