Marie Menken
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.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1909-05-25 · New York, New York
- Died
- 1970-12-29
Known for
- Chelsea Girls (1966) — Mother
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
- Lights (1966) — Director
- Glimpse of the Garden (1957) — Director
- Go! Go! Go! (1964) — Director
- Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1961) — Director
- The Geography of the Body (1943) — Body
- Notebook (1963) — Director
- Andy Warhol (1965) — Director
- Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945) — Director
- The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) — Juanita Castro
- Eye Music in Red Major (1961) — Director
- Hurry, Hurry! (1957) — Director
- Notes on Marie Menken (2006) — Self (archive footage)
- Image in the Snow (1952) — Mother
- Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965) — Self