Career
Codee married actor Frank Orth around 1911 or southern 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.
She played a variety of ethnic types, from the very French Madame
Poullard in Jezebel (1938) to the Gallic Tante Berthe in The Mummy"s Curse (1941). Ann 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 Maine Kate (1953). Codee died of a heart attack on May 18, 1961.