Biography
Ann Codee (born Anna Marie Vannuefflin, 5 March 1890 – 18 May 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. Codee was born in Antwerp. She married actor Frank Orth around 1911. 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. She is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills next to her husband.
Filmography
all 59
Movies 51
TV Shows 8
Soninha Toda Pura (1971)
Can-Can (1960)
The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
One Step Beyond (1959)
Yancy Derringer (1958)
Kings Go Forth (1958)
Wire Service (1956)
The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Interrupted Melody (1955)
The Millionaire (1955)
So This Is Paris (1954)
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Dangerous When Wet (1953)
General Electric Theater (1953)
The Clown (1953)
The Iron Mistress (1952)
Detective Story (1951)
The Lady Pays Off (1951)
An American in Paris (1951)
Go for Broke! (1951)
Mr. Imperium (1951)
Lux Video Theatre (1950)
A Lady Without Passport (1950)
The Secret Fury (1950)
Rose of Santa Rosa (1947)
Lured (1947)
So Dark the Night (1946)
It's Great to Be Young (1946)
This Love of Ours (1945)
Kitty (1945)
Secret Agent X-9 (1945)
Hangover Square (1945)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)
Bathing Beauty (1944)
Paris After Dark (1943)
Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer (1943)
Reunion in France (1942)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)
Come Live with Me (1941)
Arise, My Love (1940)
Drums of the Desert (1940)
Captain Caution (1940)
I Was an Adventuress (1940)
City in Darkness (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Jezebel (1938)
Expensive Husbands (1937)
Brilliant Marriage (1936)
Hi, Gaucho! (1935)
Under the Pampas Moon (1935)
Taking Ways (1930)
A Bird in the Hand (1929)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1890-03-05
Deathday1961-05-18 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceAntwerp, Belgium
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsAnna Marie Vannuefflin, Anna Cody
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