Marie Menken

Marie Menken

Directing

Birthday

1909/05/25

Day of death

1970/12/29 (61 years old)

Gender

Female

Place of Birth

New York, New York

Also know as

Marie Maas

Biography

Marie Menken was born Marie Menkevicius in New York City on May 25, 1909, the daughter of Catholic Lithuanian immigrants. She grew up in Brooklyn with a brother and a sister, in a home used to frequent financial difficulties. Both she and her sister Adele later changed their surname to Menken. Marie Menken and Willard Maas had got married in 1937, moving into a Brooklyn penthouse at 62 Montague Street which they would inhabit until their deaths. She died on December 29, 1970. Four days after her death, on January 2, 1971, Willard Maas died.

Acting
0.0

(1958) Narcissus

as Sibyl

Image in the Snow
5.0

(1952) Image in the Snow

as Mother

Bitch
6.0

(1965) Bitch

as ---

The Geography of the Body
5.4

(1943) The Geography of the Body

as Body

The Life of Juanita Castro
6.6

(1965) The Life of Juanita Castro

as Juanita Castro

5.4

(2006) Notes on Marie Menken

as Self (archive footage)

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
8.0

(1965) Andy Warhol Screen Tests

as Self

Prison
0.0

(1965) Prison

as ---

Chelsea Girls
5.8

(1966) Chelsea Girls

as Mother

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
7.4

(2013) Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Self