Marie Menken
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.
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Movies (32)
Notes on Marie Menken
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Excursion
Director (Directing)
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
1968
In Search of the Miraculous
Camera Operator (Camera)
1967
Watts with Eggs
Director (Directing)
1967
Chelsea Girls
as Mother
1966
Lights
Director (Directing)
1966
Sidewalks
Director (Directing)
1966
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
1965
Andy Warhol
Director (Directing)
1965
The Life of Juanita Castro
as Juanita Castro
1965
Bitch
1965
Prison
1965
Wrestling
Writer (Writing)
1964
Dionysus
Cinematography (Crew)
1964
Lita's Party
Director (Directing)
1964
Go! Go! Go!
Director (Directing)
1964
Notebook
Director (Directing)
1963
Moonplay
Director (Directing)
1962
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
Director (Directing)
1961
Bagatelle for Willard Maas
Director (Directing)
1961
Eye Music in Red Major
Director (Directing)
1961
Mood Mondrian
Director (Directing)
1961
Drips in Strips
Director (Directing)
1961
Dwightiana
Director (Directing)
1959
The Gravediggers from Guadix
Director (Directing)
1958
Glimpse of the Garden
Director (Directing)
1957
Hurry, Hurry!
Director (Directing)
1957
Narcissus
as Sibyl
1957
Image in the Snow
as Mother
1952
Visual Variations on Noguchi
Director (Directing)
1945
The Geography of the Body
as Body
1943