Ann Codee Movies
Belgian actress
Ann Codee toured American vaudeville in the 'teens and twenties in a comedy act with her husband, American-born
Frank 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 Teutonic Tante Berthe in
The Mummy's Curse (1961). Ann Codee's last film appearance was as a tight-corseted committeewoman in
Can-Can (1960). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
