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
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.
(1958) Narcissus
as Sibyl
(1952) Image in the Snow
as Mother
(1965) Bitch
as ---
(1943) The Geography of the Body
as Body
(1965) The Life of Juanita Castro
as Juanita Castro
(2006) Notes on Marie Menken
as Self (archive footage)
(1965) Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
(1965) Prison
as ---
(1966) Chelsea Girls
as Mother
(2013) Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self